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pith helmet

NOUN
  1. a lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun

How To Use pith helmet In A Sentence

  • Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets.
  • Clad in immaculate khaki shorts and blouse, with equally immaculate pith helmet, Sarah was the taller, the older, still trim, almost thin, late fifties. Bienvenidos a San Blas, a short story
  • This image of a pith helmet was fixed by using a Blur Direction of 40 degrees and a Blur Distance of 10 pixels to produce the image on the right.
  • His eccentricities included a penchant for gigantic pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Python-esque.
  • He was short and stout, and sat his pony like a hog on a hurdle; his pith helmet was wrapped in a long puggaree, and he wore a most peculiar loose cape, like an American poncho, clasped round with a snake-clasp belt. Fiancée
  • “Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.” Matthew Yglesias » Boot v. Peres on Arab Peace Initiative
  • The only real difference would be that the colonial governors sent to deal with the locals back then usually wore pith helmets.
  • The pith helmet with an attentive elephant in waiting.
  • Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious. To the Source
  • Small wonder that doctors are calling for the return of the parasol and pith helmet.
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