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Campaign hat

noun

A broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown; formerly worn by the United States Army and Marine personnel.

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"Campaign hat" Quotes from Famous Books

... would be fit for a finish. One day on the Yellowstone I had come suddenly upon a quartermaster who had a peck of oats on his boat. Oats were worth their weight in greenbacks, but so was plug tobacco. He gave me half a peck for all the tobacco in my saddle-bags, and, filling my old campaign hat with the precious grain, I sat me down on a big log by the flowing Yellowstone and told poor old "Donnybrook" to pitch in. "Donnybrook" was a "spare horse" when we started on the campaign, and had been handed over to me after the fight on the War Bonnet, where Merritt ...

— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

Words linked to "Campaign hat" : chapeau, lid, hat