What is "wideawake hat"

Usage examples of "wideawake hat".

He scratched his head under the wideawake hat and turned with a still-tolerant smile to see four guardie heading into the gallery toward him.

Now, while he was in his usual old buckskins, I was in the full prairie fig that Maxwell had given me, fringed beaded jacket and breeches and wideawake hat, with a Colt on my rump and a Bowie in my boot, and as you know I'm six feet odd and stalwart with it.

For the rest, he wore a faded Sapper jacket and a wideawake hat, with a black sash round his hips.

A big awning had been rigged up, and Mrs Spring dispensed tea and biscuits to those who wanted it -- which meant to Spring himself and to a wizened little Frenchman in a long taffeta coat and wideawake hat, who perched on a stool sipping daintily from his cup while a nigger boy stood behind fanning the flies off him, The other brokers were three greasy Dagoes in dirty finery who drank rum, a big Dutchman with a face like a suet pudding who drank gin punch, and a swarthy little Yankee who drank nothing at all.

When she heard the freezing howl of a distant wolf, her practised hand sprang to the handle of her knife, but she saw no sign of a wolf at all, nor of a naked man, neither, but then she heard a clattering among the brushwood and there sprang on to the path a fully clothed one, a very handsome young one, in the green coat and wideawake hat of a hunter, laden with carcasses of game birds.

The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.