hatband

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a decorative or functional band fitted around the crown of a hat, just above the brim

   Jack entered in deep mourning, wearing a crape hatband and black gloves.

An English compound of hat + band. Hat comes from Old English haett, while band entered Middle English from Old Norse band ("bond, fastening"). Hatbands may secure or decorate a hat; in nineteenth-century dress, a black or crape hatband conventionally signaled mourning.

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