In the hall, Scarlett saw abonnet and put it on hurriedly, tying the ribbons under her chin. It was Melanie's black mourningbonnet and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she could not recall where she had put her ownbonnet.
2008, Russell H. Conwell, Robert Shackleton,Acres of Diamonds[1], page37:
“Now,” said he, “put such abonnet as that in the show window.” He did not fill his show-window up town with a lot of hats andbonnets to drive people away, and then sit on the back stairs and bawl because people went to Wanamaker's to trade.
A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; abunnet.
A shock-head of red hair, which the hat and periwig of the Lowland costume had in a great measure concealed, was seen beneath the Highlandbonnet, and verified the epithet ofRoy, or Red, by which he was much better known in the low country than by any other, and is still, I suppose, best remembered.
(by extension) The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
2008, The Editors of Popular Mechanics,Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual[2], page297:
Make sure that the power buffer's lamb's-woolbonnet is clean. Change or rinse thebonnet frequently to avoid scratching the finish. Use thebonnet as a mitten to buff in the crevices and other areas that the power buffer can't reach.
2003, Jon McGregor,If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things[3], page189:
The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and trying to climb up onto thebonnet.
2004, David Spencer, quoted in Don Loffler,The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car[4], page217:
People were reluctant to slam abonnet shut in those days. One just did not slambonnets and doors.
2009, Ciaran Simms, Denis Wood,Pedestrian and Cyclist Impact: A Biomechanical Perspective[5], page38:
By about 20 ms, there is contact between thebonnet leading edge and the pedestrian upper leg/pelvis on the struck side, the severity of which depends on the vehicle shape.
2009, Stefan Aust, Anthea Bell,Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the R.A.F.[6], page308:
Stoll was still standing on the carbonnet with the catch of his large-calibre repeating rifle off.
1596, Thomas Masham, “The Third Voyage set forth by SirWalter Ralegh to Guiana”, inRichard Hakluyt, editor,The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation[7], volume 3, London, page695:
And standing along to the Westward, this night we tryed with our mayne coarse andbonnet. On Saturday night we came to an anker, in three fathomes againstSewramo.
“All you have to do is to put a sovereign down on my table, and to find the pea, which I put under one of my thimbles.[…] Why,” said the man, “I think you would do to be mybonnet.” “What would the wages be?” I demanded. “Why, to a first-ratebonnet, as I think you would prove, I could afford to give from forty to fifty shillings a week.”
Arabic:(as it was a European dress, there is no counterpart but only approximations)غِطَاءالْرَّأْسm(ḡiṭāʔ al-rraʔs),قَلَنْسُوَةf(qalansuwa),كَلَّوْتَةf(kallawta)
Hee hath deſerued worthily of his Countrey, and his aſſent is not by ſuch eaſie degrees as thoſe, who hauing beene ſupple and courteous to the People,Bonnetted, without any further deed, to haue them at all into their eſtimation, and report:
(dated,transitive) To pull the bonnet or cap down over the eyes of.
“You’re a dutiful and affectionate little boy, you are, ain’t you?” said Mr. Weller, “to come abonnetin’ your father in his old age?”
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“bonnet”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
