broadbrims

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

John Adams diary 22, 4 September - 9 November 1774

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

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

Haven men wore their hats in meeting, I can't see why they fussed so over the Quakers 'broadbrims.

Home Life in Colonial Days

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

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

"Sons of men who sat in meeting with their broadbrims o'er their brow,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860