sunbonnet
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
sunbonnet (plural sunbonnets)
- A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
- 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
- “Put on your sunbonnet,” she ordered.
“Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don’t make me wear that horrid thing.”
Aunt Elizabeth, wasting no further words, picked up the bonnet and tied it on Emily’s head. Emily had to yield. But from the depths of the sunbonnet issued a voice, defiant though tremulous.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi:
- A plant of the genera Leibnitzia or Chaptalia, native to Asia and the Americas.
Alternative forms edit
- sun bonnet (hat)
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type of bonnet
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