bonnetted

English

Adjective

bonnetted (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of bonneted.
    • 1777, “Description of an Antient Picture in Windsor Castle, […]”, in The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1775., 2nd edition, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 149, column 2:
      Then come two of the king’s pages on foot, the one bare-headed, the other bonnetted, both dreſſed in crimſon, embroidered on the back with the union roſe, between a greyhound and a dragon.
    • 1979, Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver, chapter 2, in A Little Destiny, New York, N.Y.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, →ISBN, page 34:
      In a small panic the mother pushed herself erect, looked around for Willard and, spotting him in the act of pretending to be having a seizure of some kind for the benefit of two bonnetted ladies, fell back again against her seat.
    • 1987, Maurice Evans, “Childhood”, in All This . . . and Evans Too! A Memoir, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, part I (1901–1935: “All the world’s a stage . . .”), pages 4–5:
      [W]e kids were lugged off every Sunday by our top-hatted father and bonnetted mother to suffer through the interminable sermons.

Derived terms

Verb

bonnetted

  1. simple past and past participle of bonnet
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