Stetsonn.
/ˈstɛtsən/ Used attributively and absol. to designate hats made by John Stetson's company, esp. one with a broad brim and high crown associated with cowboys of the western U.S. Also applied loosely to other hats in this style. A proprietary term in the U.S.
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1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 274/1 Cow Boys' sombrero hats... J. B. Stetson's ‘Boss of the Plains’.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 234/1 The world famous J. B. Stetson sombrero hat..crown 4½ inch; brim 4 inch.]
c1900 in Amer. Mail Order Fashions (1961) 27 Every railroad man knows that the Stetson hat is just the right style and shape for his business.
1903 Everybody's Mag. Dec. 739/2 ‘Send for me if you want me again,’ says Redruth, and hoists his Stetson and walks off.
1906 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 6 Mar. 290/1 Stetson. Hats and caps. John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Filed Apr. 14, 1905. Used ten years. The name ‘Stetson’.
1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xi. 271 The Professor was evidently pleased when his name came from the Stetson for the second time.
1924 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/5 The modern coster wants to wear a Stetson hat.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 250/2 Dick galloped forward and touched his ‘Stetson’.
1925 Literary Digest 27 June 46/2 Stray locks of hair streaming back under a rakish Stetson.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. ii. 38 Pat Stamper..standing there at the gate to his rope stock pen, with that Stetson cocked and his thumbs still hooked in the top of his pants.
1953 D. Cushman Stay away, Joe 19 He had donned for the occasion a new flame-red shirt and a thirty-dollar Stetson hat.
1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 17 Apr. 4/1 He was amused at the surprise that greeted his announcement that the hat he was wearing—a snappy, small-brimmed business model—was also a Stetson... ‘Stetson is a brand name. We make all kinds of men's hats.’
1970 Guardian 31 Dec. 2/7 His [sc. J. B. Stetson's] first hat was a 10-gallon Western, an ancestor of the stetsons worn by President Lyndon Johnson.
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk ii. xxi. 164 Idi Amin..went around twice talking to the hijacked passengers..wearing..a big stetson hat.
Derivatives
ˈStetsoned adj. wearing a Stetson.
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Stetsoned1935
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1935 A. G. Macdonell Visit to Amer. xiii. 235 Fort Worth, overgrown village of spurred and Stetsoned cowpunchers.
1969 Time 8 Aug. 55/1 John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh.
1972 D. A. Pailin in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind III. iv. 120 I remember a stetsoned rancher arriving at a Texas seminary.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 7/3 They're often joined by Russian trawlermen or Stetsoned Oklahomans.
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