bonnet
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Depending on your mood, you might continue with Royal Red shrimp served raw with dots of fermented Scotch bonnet pepper and a dusting of spiced red hibiscus flower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Alex said she screamed for help as cars drove past, unsuccessfully trying to smash the window with her keys before calling police as the bonnet began to turn brown.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
"But the more I got under the bonnet, the more I realised, actually, what we're doing is counterproductive."
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
But who this young lady could have been in her fine bonnet and shawl, Tristran could not say, although her eyes flooded with tears at the sight of him.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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