A hat with a very wide brim, often associated with Quaker dress or certain historical styles.
Compound of broad and brim, literally describing the hat's distinctive feature of having a wide edge.
Broadbrim hats became synonymous with Quaker identity in early America—so much so that calling someone a 'broadbrim' was shorthand for identifying them as a Quaker, showing how clothing vocabulary can encode religious and social identity.
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