hatted

1. 1
   adjectivein compounds

   Wearing a hat, or wearing a hat of a specified type.

   A neatly hatted gentleman tipped his brim as he passed.

   The whole congregation sat hatted and somber through the long service.

   Oppositehatless, bareheaded

   Note

   Formed from hat plus -ed, it is most at home in combination. P. G. Wodehouse hyphenates a number-nine-size-hatted man, while a 2024 Daily Kos post leaves red hatted open. On its own it tends to travel in lists of dress: Ambrose Bierce's man in The Applicant is hatted, booted, overcoated and umbrellaed, and Norman Lindsay's Millie appears hatted and gloved. A person either is or is not hatted, so the word takes no degrees.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of hat.

   The tailor hatted and coated the visiting dignitaries within the hour.

   Each new recruit was hatted in the regiment's colors.

   Note

   Behind this form stands a verb with more than one job. To hat someone is to put a hat on them, or to appoint them cardinal, so a newly hatted cardinal has been raised in rank as well as dressed. Used without an object, it means shopping for hats. In a passive like was hatted, the participle sits close to the "wearing a hat" adjective, and context decides whether an action or a state is meant.

3. 3
   adjective

   Written with a circumflex (the '^' mark) placed above a letter, as in â.

   The proofreader circled a hatted e that should have stayed plain.

   Older spellings kept a hatted vowel where a silent letter once stood.

   Note

   A typographer's way of picturing the circumflex as a small hat perched on its letter, so â is a hatted a and ê a hatted e. The adjective describes the single letter, not the word it sits in, and its natural contrast is plain: a hatted vowel against a plain one. It takes the hat-plus-ed pattern of the everyday "wearing a hat" sense and applies it to a mark on the page.

4. 4
   adjectiveAustralia

   Of a restaurant or chef, having earned one or more "hats," awards that recognize high-quality food.

   Critics debated whether the hatted venue still deserved its rating after the kitchen change.

   She trained for years in hatted restaurants before opening her own.

   Note

   Australian restaurant reviewing marks a kitchen's standing with hats, and this adjective comes straight from that system. It describes the place or the person, as in a hatted restaurant or a hatted chef, and never the dish on the plate. The number of hats a place holds is given with the noun instead, as in a restaurant awarded two hats.

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