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Cape Ann (hat)
[< Cape Ann, Mass.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a type of rain hat having a broad back flap, usually worn with an oilskin raincoat.
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1894
In a few minutes she is back, bearing with her a seaman's Cape Ann hat.
1936
Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, / In oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down.
1958
One August day back in 1928 a teen-age boy, dressed in 'cape ann" and oilskins, was among those who were out on the squid jigging grounds at Change Islands.
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