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STETSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stetson mean? 

STETSON (noun)
  The noun STETSON has 1 sense:

1. a hat made of felt with a creased crownplay

  Familiarity information: STETSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STETSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A hat made of felt with a creased crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fedora; felt hat; homburg; Stetson; trilby

Hypernyms ("Stetson" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)


 Context examples 


And often, at such times, he would abruptly see slouch in among the company a young hoodlum in square-cut coat and under a stiff-rim Stetson hat.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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