DCHP-1 Online
Cape Ann (hat) [< Cape Ann, Mass.] 
a type of rain hat having a broad back flap, usually worn with an oilskin raincoat.
- 1894 In a few minutes she is back, bearing with her a seaman's Cape Ann hat.
- 1936 (1966) Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, / In oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down.
- 1958 One August day back in 1928 a teen-age boy, dressed in 'cape ann" and oilskins, was among those who were out on the squid jigging grounds at Change Islands.
- 1894 In a few minutes she is back, bearing with her a seaman's Cape Ann hat.