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Recent Examples of ten-gallon hat
Lastly, a tip of the ten-gallon hat to Orville Peck and Shaboozey, two irresistible talents showing us everything country can and should be.
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Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
In a ten-gallon hat, Mack was genial; shaking hands with guests, joking with vendors, and taking selfies with supporters.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century.
—Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024
And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses?
—Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal.
—Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2024
In a ten-gallon hat, Mack was genial; shaking hands with guests, joking with vendors, and taking selfies with supporters.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024
The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century.
—Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024
And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses?
—Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal.
—Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ten-gallon hat
Noun
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This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.—
Marcus J. Moore,
Pitchfork,
15 Oct. 2025
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Zweig ended up donating a vast collection to us, including that John Lennon piano, Jimi Hendrix’s Marshall amplifier and one of his effects pedals, and some wardrobe from Madonna, and the top hat worn by Elton John on the cover of his album A Single Man, among others.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
Noun
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Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
Noun
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This denim baseball cap adds understated cool to her weekend—and will quickly become a staple in her rotation.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Glamour,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ahead of his appearance in the building, guests received a red baseball cap in the style of the traditional MAGA hats made famous by the president.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.—
Ingrid Harbo,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Five years after the plans dropped, Arsene Wenger turned up on site in his orange Wellington boots and a hard hat as part of the topping-out ceremony that celebrates the completion of the structure of a new building.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The boss gave Bevacqua a white hard hat and a yellow safety vest and drove him to the left-field mezzanine in a golf cart.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.—
Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
Noun
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One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.—
Elizabeth Djinis,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2024
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2021
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“Ten-gallon hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ten-gallon%20hat. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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