What is "brimless"

Usage examples of "brimless".

Very still, as if fearing to betray itself by sound or movement, was her figure in its blue-green frock, and a brimless toque of brown straw, with two purplish roses squashed together into a band of darker velvet.

I remember their singed lawns and white-pillared porches, and the lone gas stations, the pumps like cylindrical one-armed robots, their glass tops like brimless bowler hats, and the cemeteries that looked as if no one else would ever be buried in them.

The men wore brimless, straight-sided, round, dark, flat-topped hats, with strange markings in light colors that looked to have been painted on with fingers.

She wore a plain, tight-fitting grey gown, a small straw hat of the brimless kind, and a white linen collar about her neck.

What the day before it had taken him three hours to make from striped pants, a jacketlike rag with bold checks, a brimless hat, and, with the help of an incomplete and ramshackle ladder, an armful of freshly cut willow switches, he tore down the following morning, to construct from the same materials an oddity of a very different race and faith, but which like its predecessor commanded birds to keep their distance.

This one was sporting a soft, brimless cap of bright red and blue squares, worn at a rakish angle.

For an instant I had trouble placing the horsey weatherbeaten face under the brimless cap.

These coins were emblazoned with the profile of the second King Mithridates of the Parthians, a short-necked old man with a nose suitable for catching fish, carefully curled hair and pointed beard, and on his head the little round brimless hat his ambassadors had worn, except that his boasted the ribbon of the diadem and had ear-flaps and neck-shield.

Taraboner hat that he had taken to wearing on his flat, black hair, a brimless, conical thing, tall and flat-topped.

Devon farmers in corduroy breeches, red vests that dropped half down their fat thighs, and little tight brimless yellow caps like the scooped-out half of a pumpkin.

Boaz-Jachin saw his face still crying under the old black brimless hat that was not a skullcap and not a fez as the lorry, trailing its aroma of petrol, oranges, and orange-crate wood, pulled out into the road and away.

Dropping his helm but retaining the steel skullcap, he donned a flat-crowned, brimless hat of fine black felt.

On his head sat the cylindrical, brimless, felt Irazi cap, like a small inverted bucket.

He wore a brimless, conical white hat which, blending into the white of his forehead, would have made him rather resemble a bald pinhead, except that the cap was jauntily tilted just a bit to one side.

She wore a nearly brimless bonnet, and her hair was loose and bouncy beneath it.