behatted

English

Etymology

be- +‎ hat +‎ -ed

Adjective

behatted (not comparable)

1. Wearing a hat.
   • 1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard‎^[1], London: Cassell, page 234:

     In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.

   • 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again‎^[2], Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446:

     So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing […]

   • 1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984:

     If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.

   • 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 8, in The Plot Against America‎^[3], New York: Vintage, published 2005, page 305:

     […] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate […] )

   • 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:

     Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.

Anagrams

• debateth