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woven sunlight you can wear, declaring war on heatstroke one farm at a time
means A lightweight hat woven from dried plant stalks, worn to shade the head and keep off the sun.
from A plain compound of two old workhorse words. 'Straw' descends from Old English 'streaw' — the dried stalks of cereal grains, related to 'strew,' because straw was the stuff you scattered on floors and beds. 'Hat' comes from Old English 'hætt,' a cousin of words meaning 'cover' or 'hood.' Plaiting dried grass and straw into headgear is ancient and near-universal — wherever people farmed under a hot sky, they wove the leftover stalks into shade — so the object is far older than the tidy English label stuck on it.
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