behatted

English

Etymology

be- +‎ hat +‎ -ed

Adjective

behatted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hat.
    • 1910, Baroness Orczy, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, Chapter 9, p. 234,
      In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.
    • 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446,
      So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing […]
    • 2004, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, New York: Vintage, 2005, Chapter 8, p. 305,
      […] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate […] )

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