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som·bre·ro

 (sŏm-brâr′ō, səm-)
n. pl. som·bre·ros
A large straw or felt hat with a broad brim and tall crown, worn especially in Mexico and the American Southwest.
[Spanish, perhaps from sombra, shade, probably from sombrar, to shade, from Late Latin subumbrāre, to cast a shadow; see somber.]
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sombrero

(sɒmˈbrɛərəʊ)
n, pl -ros
(Clothing & Fashion) 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]
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som•bre•ro

(sɒmˈbrɛər oʊ)

n., pl. -ros.
a broad-brimmed, tall-crowned hat of straw or felt worn esp. in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.
[1590–1600; < Sp: hat, derivative of sombra shade; see somber]
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sombrero

A wide-brimmed Mexican straw hat with a high crown.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Sombrero - one of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis - a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983
2.sombrero - a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico
chapeau, hat, lid - headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
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Translations
sombrero
szombréró
mexíkanahattur

sombrero

[səmˈbreərəʊ] N → sombrero m mejicano
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sombrero

[sɒmˈbrɛərəʊ] n → sombrero m
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sombrero

n → Sombrero m
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He might have stepped out of the pages of `Jesse James.' He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle, and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly, like little horns.
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"Good-bye," he answered, raising his broad sombrero, and bending over her little hand.
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A pair of large, jingling silver spurs and a stiff sombrero, borrowed with the mustang from some mysterious source, were donned to do honor to the occasion.
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The Spaniard was wrapped in a serape; he had bushy white whiskers; long white hair flowed from under his sombrero, and he wore green goggles.
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Captain Lancaster, in his voyage [20] in 1601, narrates that on the sea-sands of the Island of Sombrero, in the East Indies, he "found a small twig growing up like a young tree, and on offering to pluck it up it shrinks down to the ground, and sinks, unless held very hard.
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Beyond it lay the broad sombrero fallen from the head of Muscari, and beside it a sealed business letter which, after a glance at the address, he returned to the elder Harrogate.
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" Hombre, quita tu sombrero !" said one of the three knaves, in whose grasp he was, and, before he had comprehended the meaning, the other had snatched his hat--a wretched headgear, it is true, but still good on a sunny day or when there was but little rain.
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The old terrorist, raising an uncertain and clawlike hand, gave a swaggering tilt to a black felt sombrero shading the hollows and ridges of his wasted face.
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Sombreros and red shirts and plumed Indians were rarely to be seen; but there were silk hats and black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously active, gentlemanly-looking men.
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