WordNet
n. a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim
Wikipedia
A picture hat, also sometimes known as a Gainsborough hat, is an elaborate woman's hat with a wide brim. It has been suggested that the name may be derived from the way the broad brim frames the face to create a 'picture'.
This is a very broad category of hat; some versions may be similar to the halo or cartwheel hat. This style featured in virtually every decade of the 20th century, and has a history dating back to at least the 18th century.
Usage examples of "picture hat".
Her picture hat was green, as were her high-heeled slingbacks and a wispy scarf affair she’.
A woman in a large picture hat had turned in at the gate on a bicycle.
Ada had on a new dress, blue with leg o'mutton sleeves and a picture hat.
The Patriarch released her after an instant, and his hands, in lieu of eyes, reaching out to search her face, came bewilderingly in contact with the picture hat.
James had to admit that only Jacqueline could have walked into an elegant French restaurant carrying a green plastic trash bag and wearing a lavender picture hat two and a half feet in diameter.
There was a man in a yachting cap with a Johnnie Walker nose and a fluffy blonde in a picture hat and a thin man with a crooked bow tie.
She was wearing an evening gown of lustrous black with the apparently simple lines that are so baffling to any but the expert maker, with a black picture hat that suited her no end.
With that white vest and black tie before him, to say nothing of the picture hat that crowned the massive head, it was impossible for Holmes not to wish that he could appreciate Horace P.
The calico dummy wore Lucinda's straw picture hat and looked quite odd.