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Answer for the clue "Traditional barbershop quartet hat ", 6 letters:
boater

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__NOTOC__ A boater (also straw boater , basher , skimmer , cady , katie , canotier , somer , sennit hat , or in Japan, can-can hat ) is a kind of men's formal summer hat . It is normally made of stiff sennit straw and has a stiff flat crown and brim, typically ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN straw ▪ Ascot Sunday, and an attentive Edmund - straw boater , white flannels. ▪ She pictured a straw boater and a bicycle and as her smile spread he abruptly faced her. ▪ Their clerks, mostly in straw boaters , hurried ...

Usage examples of boater.

The portmanteau, et al, were scattered around me, along with my boater, which had fallen off when I dived for the net.

He was dressed like I was, in white flannels and slightly crooked mustache, and was carrying his boater in his hand.

Terence said and doffed his boater, which unfortunately still had a good deal of water in the brim.

I opened the carpetbag, took out the boater, shut the bag and carried it back into the circle.

I set the bag down and put the boater on at a jaunty angle that would have made Lord Peter proud.

Then, as showtime neared, they returned to the ship, where Tojo donned his candy-striped jacket and straw boater, and Flint had a couple of lukewarm beers and a sandwich.

The door was opened by a tall, handsome man wearing a boater, white shirt and slacks as if about to go rowing in spite of the cold weather.

The manager wore a greasy boater and snickered through an overbite stained from cigarettes and tea.

Mayor wants to issue a press release warning boaters to stay off the water.

Tyler left them, went back to the cattle boat for his gear, this time looking around at all the different kinds of straw hats there were, boaters, big raggedy ones, lightweight panamas with black bands that looked pretty good.

Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.

Straw boaters sat perkily on the heads of office girls, and the hems of their long skirts swirled around their ankles.

Giant rogue barracudas are leaping from the sea to mangle unsuspecting boaters, then flopping back into the water to resume their diabolical stalk.

Purple satin kerchiefs were tied around their necks and debonair straw boaters were rakishly angled on top of their heads.

Doing it on a Sunday, when the waters off Key Biscayne are full of innocent boaters, is just plain reckless.