Meanings of wearing broad in English

The young ladies of the household were waiting, dressed in short skirts and wearing broad-brimmed straw hats.

Others, prohibited from wearing broad laces, were criticised for ordering narrow ones, for "going as farr as they may."

With painted faces, and wearing broad white bosoms of elk's teeth, they hurried down the narrow footpath to Haraka Wambdi's wigwam.

Bartja and Darius disguised themselves so completely by dyeing their hair and eyebrows and wearing broad-brimmed felt-hats,-thatthey could scarcely recognize each other.

Is he dead, too? he continued, lifting his eyes and beholding Roughgrove attired in a suit of velvet, and wearing broad silver knee buckles.

The longhorned cattle of Texas were wearing broad trails to the north and the northwest and such towns as Los Portales were on the boom.