be-Stetsoned

See also: be-stetsoned and bestetsoned

English

Alternative forms

• be-stetsoned
• bestetsoned

Etymology

From be- +‎ Stetson +‎ -ed.

Adjective

be-Stetsoned (not comparable)

1. Wearing a Stetson.
   • 1918 January 13, James De Camp, “Cowboys Rope $15,000 for Red Cross Fund; Bucking Mounts Turn Coast League Diamond into Wild West Corral”, in The Los Angeles Times, part VI, page 12:

     In two winks and a sneeze the staid old Coast League diamond became transformed Into a dusty corral crowded with bucking mounts, gaily-scarfed vaqueros, daring cowgirls, snorting steers, be-Stetsoned past-masters with the lariat, “six-gun” specialists and whooping Indians—Doug Fairbanks and his efficient aides had torn a page from the history of the olden West, touched the words of Bret Harte and Emerson Hough with art’s mysterious alchemy and rethroned the hard riding, chance-taking cigarette-consuming daredevil of the range.

   • 1923 August 29, “Veterans Hear Landis, Sheppard after Busy Day”, in The Houston Post, volume 39, number 147, Houston, Tex., page 2:

     Before the convention first assembled the picturesque “Old Grey Mare” bandsmen, attired in colorful cowboy garb, be-Stetsoned, be-bandanna-ed and be-chapped, opened matters up with a march through the hall, playing the air for which they are noted all over the United States: “The Old Grey Mare.”

   • 1948 March 3, “Ex-Governor Gets in on Verbal Roundup”, in Amarillo Daily News, volume XXXIX, number 104, Amarillo, Tex., page four:

     Putting be-Stetsoned heads together were Jay Taylor, left, Mayor Lawrence Hagy, Mr. Stevenson and Lee Bivins.

   • 1950, Roberta McConnell, Never Marry a Ranger, New York, N.Y.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 167:

     Somebody located the old reed organ we had under the box elders in the back yard and while two be-Stetsoned possemen lay on their stomachs and pumped the bellows, the sheriff poked out “Ninety Nine Years” and “The Birmingham Jail.”

   • 2013, Jeff Bush, “East Meets Western: The Eastern Philosophy of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain”, in Robert Arp, Adam Barkman, James McRae, editors, The Philosophy of Ang Lee, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 78:

     The cinematic template for this archetype was first sketched out in the silent era by Tom Mix, who represented the very essence of a cowboy—be-Stetsoned, athletic, and straight acting.

Synonyms

• Stetsoned