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- adjective Wearing a
sunbonnet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She saw a woman, not so old as Aunt Kate, barefooted and sunbonneted, driving a raw-boned mule fastened to a homemade sled.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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She was half way across the field by the time she had finished speaking, eager to tell the good news to the girls; and before the dew was dry on the grass the next morning, three sunbonneted figures scampered down the road to Mr. Hartman's lower pasture, armed with big pails and Allee's red wagon, intent on picking all the berries they could for Faith's jelly.
At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown
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They crossed the porch and entered the kitchen hand-in-hand, the sunbonneted little girl and the big farmer.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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"Well, I declare, Mary Marsden!" gasped the sunbonneted woman, who was plainly Abby Drake.
Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Alice B. Emerson
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She feared every moment that she might meet a little wagon drawn by a sunbonneted, long-aproned woman, or a man not less picturesque.
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He talked to bearded Dunkards and their sunbonneted wives; and when he found a Confederate veteran he listened to the tale of the defense of
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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She crept into bed and pulled the clothes over her sunbonneted head.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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She did not dream of the actual heroism which actuated him when he set out with little Dan'l, holding his big umbrella over her little sunbonneted head and waving in his other hand a palm-leaf fan.
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One day I espied, coming down the dusty road, the limp, sunbonneted figure of Morning-Glory's mistress.
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Thus they defile: men with felt hats drawn over their brows; women, sunbonneted or hatless; children barefoot, bareheaded, ragged, unwashed.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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