0 a hat with a wide brim, worn especially by men in Mexico --
1 a large hat with a wide brim (= the bottom part that sticks out all around), worn esp. by men in Mexico and the southwestern US --
During a particular fit, the author becomes dissatisfied with a story he had just begun about a sombrero falling from the sky.
The three go into the swamp to look for him but only find his sombrero hat, which he had taken off earlier.
Wears a poncho and sombrero when he's not fighting.
The children are dismayed, until an adult, represented by a larger sombrero, comes in with a stick large enough to reach the piata.
This sequence caused the structure to resemble a large sombrero when the bottom was complete.
It takes from 12 to 20 days to make this sombrero from scratch.
They can only turn over one sombrero and catch one chicken at a time.
Around this time, he adopted his trademark clothing, which consisted of the red shirt, poncho, and sombrero commonly worn by the gauchos.
