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- noun Plural form of
broadbrim .
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Examples
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Two or 3 broadbrims, over against me at Table -- one of em said this is not a Toast but a Prayer, come let us join in it -- and they took their
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On the way to Kennett Square, a young gentleman pointed out to us the home of Benjamin West, who distinguished himself, to the disgust of broadbrims generally, as a landscape painter.
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In 1677 the ship Kent took out some 230 rather well-to-do Quakers, about as fine a company of broadbrims, it is said, as ever entered the Delaware.
The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Sydney George Fisher 1891
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Haven men wore their hats in meeting, I can't see why they fussed so over the Quakers 'broadbrims.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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On the way to Kennett Square, a young gentleman pointed out to us the home of Benjamin West, who distinguished himself, to the disgust of broadbrims generally, as a landscape painter.
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858
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A strong < i > esprit de corps soon sprang up among the broadbrims, which made discipline easy, and after a few days Fink was besieged with petitioners for a like uniform, and a gun, and the privilege of being taken into his service.
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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"Sons of men who sat in meeting with their broadbrims o'er their brow,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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