ten-gallon hat

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Recent Examples of ten-gallon hat Lastly, a tip of the ten-gallon hat to Orville Peck and Shaboozey, two irresistible talents showing us everything country can and should be. Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024 In a ten-gallon hat, Mack was genial; shaking hands with guests, joking with vendors, and taking selfies with supporters. David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024 The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century. Essence, 2 Sep. 2024 Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role. David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024 And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west. Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024 The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt. Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024 So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses? Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024 With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal. Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ten-gallon hat
Noun
  • There's the pomp and circumstance, the top hats and tuxedos, and the myth that there is only one Punxsutawney Phil, who has been making weather predictions since the 1880s.
    Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Snowmen are often seen with a top hat, scarf and pipe.
    Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • These artists bum-rushed the entire industry — from blazing defiant lyrics to becoming record mogul millionaires in corporate boardrooms; baggy jeans, baseball caps, leather sneakers and hoodies became a billion-dollar market.
    Ronald E. Scott, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Lewis was equally low-key in jeans, a white T-shirt, a zip-up sweatshirt and a baseball cap.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In 2025, the hard hats come off and the pictures go back up.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • Downtown saw more cowboy hats, bolo ties and big shiny belt buckles than usual this weekend as the second annual San Diego Rodeo took over Petco Park for three nights.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Buck stands under the soft glow of Tiffany-style fixtures, his guitar slung casually over his shoulders and his brown cowboy hat casting a shadow over his black denim jacket.
    Maxwell Williams, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025

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