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  • proper noun A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Edmond Bonnet (1848-1922).

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Examples

  • EDIT: Have enabled content because Steel Bonnet is friends locked.

    Steel Bonnet needs a room as of Mid July zornhau 2008

  • Bonnet is a knitted cap that can be stretched over various forms.

    The Bonnet Collection from Casalis 2008

  • 'Bonnet is cant,' said the man; 'we of the thimble, as well as all cly - fakers and the like, understand cant, as, of course, must every bonnet; so, if you are employed by me, you had better learn it as soon as you can, that we may discourse together without being understood by every one.

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • ‘Bonnet is cant,’ said the man; ‘we of the thimble, as well as all cly-fakers and the like, understand cant, as, of course, must every bonnet; so, if you are employed by me, you had better learn it as soon as you can, that we may discourse together without being understood by every one.

    Lavengro 2004

  • "Bonnet is cant," said the man; "we of the thimble, as well as all clyfakers and the like, understand cant, as, of course, must every bonnet; so, if you are employed by me, you had better learn it as soon as you can, that we may discourse together without being understood by every one.

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • "Bonnet is cant," said the man; "we of the thimble, as well as all clyfakers and the like, understand cant, as, of course, must every bonnet; so, if you are employed by me, you had better learn it as soon as you can, that we may discourse together without being understood by every one.

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • "Bonnet is cant," said the man; "we of the thimble, as well as all clyfakers and the like, understand cant, as, of course, must every bonnet; so, if you are employed by me, you had better learn it as soon as you can, that we may discourse together without being understood by every one.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • "One of the reasons for the Roosevelt / Eden plot to overthrow the Chamberlain government and remove Bonnet from the French Cabinet was because they would not agree to pay the price Stalin demanded to encircle and defeat Germany.

    Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008

  • One very high - profile TV personality, whose career took a meteoric leap, is known as The Bonnet because of a certain horizontal workout she is meant to have undertaken to get there.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • One very high - profile TV personality, whose career took a meteoric leap, is known as The Bonnet because of a certain horizontal workout she is meant to have undertaken to get there.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

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