church hat

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   a fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship

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Questions about church hat

What does church hat mean?

church hat means "a fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship".

Is church hat a common word?

church hat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.