bongrace

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Her bongrace which she ware, with her French hood,

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  1. A shade formerly worn by women on the front of a bonnet to protect the complexion from the sun; also, a large bonnet or broad-brimmed hat serving the same purpose. [My face] was spoiled for want of a bongrace when I was young. Beau. and Fl., The Captain, ii. 1. Ye wad laugh well to see my round face at the far end of a strae bongrace, that looks as muckle and round as the middle aisle in Libberton Kirk. Scott, Heart of Midlothian.

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  • Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity Aweel, Ellangowan,' she said, 'wad it no hae been a bonnie thing, an the leddy had been brought to bed, and me at the fair o' Drumshourloch, no kenning, nor dreaming a word about it? —  Guy Mannering — Complete
  • Her bongrace which she ware, with her French hood, —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
  • And if this bongrace they do devoutly kiss, —  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
  • Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity. —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
 

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  1. Early modern English also bone-, bond-, boun-, bun-, boongrace, from French bonnegrace, “the uppermost flap of the down-hanging tail of a French hood, whence belike our Boongrace” (Cotgrave); from bonne, feminine of bon, good, + grace (now gráce), grace: see boon and grace.
 

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