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  • noun Plural form of hatband.

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Examples

  • The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes."

    The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed Frank Keating 2010

  • Perhaps inspired by Fred Astaire's habit of slipping a necktie through his belt loops, the ribbon belt began as a clever re-purposing of the narrow fabrics used in hatbands and other garment trimmings.

    Tie One On Darrell Hartman 2011

  • Any artists out there that make hatbands or something else?

    Having bagged 60 plus turkeys over the years I have a large cache of beards and spurs. Any ideas? 2009

  • And all TSAʼs explosive trace detection machines, bomb puffers, and recent body scanners are essentially props -- hatbands, shoes, and overalls for the aviation scarecrow.

    Fred Gevalt: Airport Security and TSA -- Isn't it Time For Us to Grow Up? Fred Gevalt 2010

  • We would each borrow from Grandpa's fedora collection, and put "PRESS" signs in our hatbands!

    The Home Newspaper 2008

  • Whether pressured by a public perception of callousness or simply by the lengthening list of dead soldiers, then, commemoration has moved to the vital center of Pentagon policy and has brought with it the mock twenty-one gun salutes and the rigid inspections of shined shoes and hatbands of the Reno competition.

    Simon Maxwell Apter: Best at Burying 2008

  • Everybody, including the state government, was in hock up to the sweaty hatbands of their Panamas.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • However, for some reason, all of her revelations have to do with the Sorting Hat, who we learn is a bigamist with a tragic Scotchgard addiction and a fetish for leather hatbands who once visited Thailand to procure the services of an underage sunbonnet.

    Breasts, Violas and Tulips: Alt Predictions for 2008 2007

  • However, for some reason, all of her revelations have to do with the Sorting Hat, who we learn is a bigamist with a tragic Scotchgard addiction and a fetish for leather hatbands who once visited Thailand to procure the services of an underage sunbonnet.

    Breasts, Violas and Tulips: Alt Predictions for 2008 2007

  • The little lads of Castlewood, almost smothered in black trains and hatbands, headed the procession, and were followed by my Lord Fairfax from Greenway

    The Virginians 2006

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