campaign hat
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7.0
- noun
- /ˈkæmpeɪn hæt/
- US
:
sombrero de campaña
- The traditional campaign hat is instantly recognizable due to its broad brim and high crown.
Examples
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His campaign hat had no jaunty tilt to it either, like Rhodes' did, but was bent down a bit in front, as if he wore it more to keep the sun, rain, and snow out of his eyes.
Fiction book (1998) -
Campaign hat, cartridge belt and weapon.
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He wore the same kind of green utilities the other DIs wore, a campaign hat, boots, and because it was raining, a utility jacket.
Fiction book (1998) -
He wore laced high boots, whipcord britches, chamois shirts, and a campaign hat.
Fiction book (1994) -
I survived the first few months there by keeping my mouth shut and, when standing at attention for hours in the barracks, with drill instructors screaming in my face, by focusing over their Smokey Bear campaign hats onto a nail head in the opposite Quonset wall.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Smedley Butler took off his broad-brimmed campaign hat for a moment and wiped sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, brushing his dark hair back, using the gesture to bring his temper under control.
Fiction book (2002) -
The soldier adjusted his campaign hat to shield his eyes from the glaring sun.
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During the ceremony, each participant proudly wore a campaign hat as part of their uniform.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'campaign' and 'hat' can infer it denotes a hat associated with military campaigns or official use. However, the specific conventional sense—a particular broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown worn as part of a U.S. uniform—is a lexicalized subtype (shape/material) that cannot be fully predicted from the constituents, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The noun campaign hat may come from soldiers who wore a wide-brim, high-crown hat while on a military campaign to keep sun and rain off their faces. That's why the campaign hat is linked to uniforms like those of park rangers and drill sergeants and now means that specific style of hat.