sombrero
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| —n , pl -ros | |
| 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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Sombrero
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
sombrero
1770, from Sp. sombrero "broad-brimmed hat," originally "umbrella or parasol" (1598), from sombra "shade," from L.L. subumbrare (see somber).
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sombrero
broad-brimmed, high-crowned hat made of felt or straw, worn especially in Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern United States. The sombrero, its name derived from the Spanish word sombra, meaning "shade," first appeared in the 15th century. Gentlemen often wore tan, white, or gray felt sombreros, while the peasants wore straw.
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Example sentences
Some spiral galaxies obtain even more interesting shapes that earn them descriptive names, such as sombrero galaxies.
He is on a horse, wears a cream-colored sombrero and carries his guns openly at the hip instead of in a shoulder holster.
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