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bonnet

[bon-it] / ˈbɒn ɪt /


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Her teachers instantly recognized the pinafore dress and bonnet, but her fellow students didn’t know who she was.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

It is difficult to see under the bonnet of Celtic's recruitment operation.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

He said he saw a "flash of flame" under the bonnet of Rhys Jenkins' Toyota, which then spun, ending up facing back the way it had come.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

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

Mrs. Frisby could not see him in the dark, but when she touched him she found they had even tied a piece like a bonnet around his head and ears.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

"Peppers, particularly Scotch bonnets, are facing myriad challenges right across the Caribbean," says Dwight Forrester, of Jamaica's Rural Agricultural Development Authority.

From BBC May 31, 2026

The white women in bonnets still make appearances, but so do performers like Stephen Seals, who portrays James Armistead Lafayette, an enslaved Virginian turned revolutionary spy.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, one end of the observation car had been filled by several women in white bonnets, joined by men with straw hats, footlong beards and no mustaches.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

Watching Carrie write this novel, click-clacking away at her keyboard, pondering bonnets and buggies, is equivalent to watching a loved one descend into madness.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2025

“Let us,” Lincoln declared, “make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives’ bonnets to church.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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