broadbrim
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
broadbrim (plural broadbrims)
- A hat with a very broad brim.
- (humorous, dated) A Quaker.
- (humorous, archaic, by extension) A quiet, sedate, respectable old man.
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “broadbrim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)