Post by t-bob on Jun 27, 2019 10:04:11 GMT -5
STRAWHAT
adjective
1. of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
Quotes
Indeed, the strawhat impresario is not only at the mercy of the the customers but he is also subject to the tribulations and vagaries of the actors .... -- Charlotte Harmon, "Confessions of a Strawhat Impresario," New York Times, June 16, 1957 After a million-dollar restoration, the old house reopened as a strawhat theater in 1963 with Price, a recent graduate of the Yale Drama School, as general manager. -- Lynne Baranski, "Michael Price's Goodspeed Opera Doesn't Just Try Out Broadway Hits—It Creates Them," People, November 19, 1979
Origin
Strawhat used as an attributive or adjective, as in strawhat circuit, was originally an Americanism and referred to the custom, still common, of people wearing straw hats in the summer for comfort. Strawhat entered English in the mid-1930s
adjective
1. of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
Quotes
Indeed, the strawhat impresario is not only at the mercy of the the customers but he is also subject to the tribulations and vagaries of the actors .... -- Charlotte Harmon, "Confessions of a Strawhat Impresario," New York Times, June 16, 1957 After a million-dollar restoration, the old house reopened as a strawhat theater in 1963 with Price, a recent graduate of the Yale Drama School, as general manager. -- Lynne Baranski, "Michael Price's Goodspeed Opera Doesn't Just Try Out Broadway Hits—It Creates Them," People, November 19, 1979
Origin
Strawhat used as an attributive or adjective, as in strawhat circuit, was originally an Americanism and referred to the custom, still common, of people wearing straw hats in the summer for comfort. Strawhat entered English in the mid-1930s
