Definition of "behatted"

In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.

1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard‎, London: Cassell, page 234

So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing […]

1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again‎, Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446

If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.

1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984

[…] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate […] )

2004, Philip Roth, chapter 8, in The Plot Against America‎, New York: Vintage, published 2005, page 305

Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.

2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52