Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a bonnet, or furnished with a bonnet, in any of the senses of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing a bonnet.
- adjective (Fort.) Protected by a bonnet. See
Bonnet , 4 (a).
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- adjective Wearing a
bonnet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is an old established usage in Berlin, on New Year's eve, which prescribed that any man appearing in the street in a high or stiff hat should be incontinently bonneted, that is to say, have his hat crushed down over his eyes and ears by a blow of the fist.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900
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Him the _pelados_ had "bonneted," and otherwise maltreated.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully "bonneted" the Spirit at any period of his life.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1841
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Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully "bonneted" the Spirit at any period of his life.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1841
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Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having wilfully 'bonneted' the Spirit at any period of his life.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1841
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As she passed her arm through mine I nodded offhand and said, "Ladies" as twenty bonneted heads ducked in my direction, and twenty graceful figures bobbed-by George, I daren't stare or I'd have started to drool.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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The Tinker is of course very special to everyone who knows him and that might be quite a lot of people soon, but here he is with a 2 week old well-packaged and bonneted me.
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The Tinker is of course very special to everyone who knows him and that might be quite a lot of people soon, but here he is with a 2 week old well-packaged and bonneted me.
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Personally, I am dividing my time between the Orange Culture, and the Wrecker Culture (*), but Lowland Scots Culture is beginning to creep up in appreciation, much like a blue bonneted border reiver upon some English cattle (*).
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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The Tinker is of course very special to everyone who knows him and that might be quite a lot of people soon, but here he is with a 2 week old well-packaged and bonneted me.
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