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  • noun Plural form of bunnet.

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Examples

  • "Take them bunnets an 'things off so I kin see your faces," ordered the old man, at the same time keeping the crowd covered with his shotgun.

    The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896

  • "When wimmen are so in earnest, and want anything so much they can stand soakin 'in their best dresses, and let their Sunday bunnets be spilte on their heads, not noticin' 'em seemin'ly, but keep right on pleadin 'for right and justice, they are in a fair way of gittin' what they are after."

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • Wall, what should that good little creeter do but gin all the money she had earned and saved durin 'the past year or two, and had laid by for emergincies or bunnets.

    Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 Marietta Holley 1881

  • Wall, what should that good little creeter do but gin all the money she had earned and saved durin 'the past year or two, and had laid by for emergincies or bunnets.

    Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

  • Gin her presents, jewelry, bunnets, head-dresses, artificial flowers out of Serepta's own hip money.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • Massy to us! the bunnets, an 'the feathers, an' the Injy shawls, an 'the purple an' fine linen, was all out on the 'casion.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • It's carpets, an 'bunnets, an' slithers of railroad-stock, an 'some colour on Margot's cheeks, -- ye' ed best think o 'that!

    Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870

  • It's carpets, an 'bunnets, an' slithers of railroad-stock, an 'some colour on Margot's cheeks, -- ye' ed best think o 'that!

    Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day 1862

  • She made the cheese and made the butter, and between spells she braided herself handsome straw bunnets, and fixed up her clothes; and somehow she worked it so when she sold her butter and cheese that there was somethin 'for ribbins and flowers.

    Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • Wal, I guess there was a rus'lin 'among the bunnets.

    Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

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