What is ‘tejano hat’?
Today Señor Alva came down from the scaffold as fast as a monkey to fight with one of the guards. They are rude about the paintings. Four boys in tejano hats came in and said they would throw tar on the wall after the Painter goes home, to defend Mexico and save her national symbols from insult. Señor Alva shouted at the guards to keep those boys away.

What is ‘tejano hat’ in the third sentence? What’s the English name for that kind of hat?
Thanks!

Question

What is ‘tejano hat’?
Today Señor Alva came down from the scaffold as fast as a monkey to fight with one of the guards. They are rude about the paintings. Four boys in tejano hats came in and said they would throw tar on the wall after the Painter goes home, to defend Mexico and save her national symbols from insult. Señor Alva shouted at the guards to keep those boys away.

What is ‘tejano hat’ in the third sentence? What’s the English name for that kind of hat?
Thanks!

Answer

If I'm not mistaken, "tejano" is Spanish for "Texan" (from the state of Texas).  I've never seen the term "tejano hat" before, but we usually call that type of hat cowboy hats or five- or ten-gallon hats (depending on their size) in English.

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