Noun: sombrero
| Singular | sombrero |
| Plural | sombreros |
Sample Sentences
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Beatrice looked up and saw a man standing before her; the huge sombrero overshadowed his face, but the light of the lamp shone on a large and glittering knife in his girdle. [1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 135:]
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`Hey listen Pancho, take your hands off me or I'll stick your sombrero up your Khyber.' [1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 42:]
Nouns inflected like sombrero
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat. See: Spanish Nouns '
sombrero'.