sunhat

US/ˈsʌnˌhæt/

nounA2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

A sunhat is a wide hat worn to keep the sun off your face. Put on a sunhat.

The brim is the whole point, since a cap leaves the ears and the neck exposed. A sunhat does more against skin damage than any amount of cream on the face.

Definitions of sunhat

1nounsunhatA wide hat worn to keep the sun off your face.A2
“The sunhat blew off the boat within about ten minutes.”

sunhat is a hat.

Where it comes from

Sun plus hat; the compound is recorded from the nineteenth century, when wide brims were ordinary wear.

From sun + hat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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