pith helmet
a hat made of dried pith or cork covered with cloth, worn in the tropics.
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How to use pith helmet in a sentence
Dusty bowlers hustled it with heather coloured caps and top hats; one even bore a pith helmet and a clerical atrocity.
A Bed of Roses | W. L. GeorgeShe looked cool and workman-like in a linen habit and white pith helmet—Norah's Christmas present.
Back To Billabong | Mary Grant BruceHe has also groaned much at the idea of substituting this futile head-gear for his hideous but convenient pith helmet.
A serviceable pith helmet barely overhung the protrusive goggles.
The Unspeakable Perk | Samuel Hopkins AdamsThis reduced the residuum to sixteen, whose names were written on slips of paper, thrown into a pith helmet, and tumbled together.
Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas | Lloyd Osbourne
British Dictionary definitions for pith helmet
a lightweight hat made of pith that protects the wearer from the sun: Also called: topee, topi
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