sombrero

[ som-brair-oh; Spanish sawm-bre-raw ]

/ sɒmˈbrɛər oʊ; Spanish sɔmˈbrɛ rɔ /

a broad-brimmed hat of straw or felt, usually tall-crowned, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern U.S.

Compare cowboy hat, ten-gallon hat.

Origin of sombrero

1590–1600; < Spanish: hat, derivative of sombra shade; see somber

som·bre·roed, adjective

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How Not to Be Awful This Cinco de Mayo |Kelly Williams Brown |May 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
You know, like, throw on a sombrero and a poncho, maybe draw a mustache on my face?

How Not to Be Awful This Cinco de Mayo |Kelly Williams Brown |May 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
She begrudgingly danced around a sombrero with me but soon rushed off to a basketball game with the grip and electric departments.

Jodie Foster Blasts Kristen Stewart–Robert Pattinson Break-Up Spectacle |Jodie Foster |August 15, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
And there is no better excuse to drink tequila (worm and all) and don a sombrero than Cinco de Mayo.

Best Mexican Food in New York City: The Daily Beast Takes a Tour |Michelle Gross |May 4, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

I'll con-centrate on his head until it gets so small that he can wear a charlotte russe cup on it instead of a sombrero.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers |Jessie Graham Flower
He wore a large soft hat—a Brazilian sombrero—whose edges he had turned down.

Messengers of Evil |Pierre Souvestre
Sombrero, leather chaps well worn, blue shirt, and red neck handkerchief.

The Border Boys Across the Frontier |Fremont B. Deering
His high-peaked Mexican sombrero bobbed above the rocks, then disappeared.

The Young Forester |Zane Grey
I have his overalls, a fiesta jacket, some shirts and a sombrero, señor.

His Unknown Wife |Louis Tracy

sombrero

/ (sɒmˈbrɛərəʊ) /

a felt or straw hat with a wide brim, as worn by men in Mexico

C16: from Spanish, from sombrero de sol shade from the sun