long-bonneted
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- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) (of a motor vehicle) Having a long bonnet.
- 1927, Edgar Wallace, chapter 11, in The Man Who Was Nobody[1]:
- Whilst they sat they heard the whirr of a motor car, and a long-bonneted limousine came into view and stopped opposite the gates, and a lady got out.
- 2015 April 16, Ollie Marriage, “First Drive: Mercedes-Benz AMG GT GT S Premium 2dr Auto”, in Top Gear:
- This is from the same school—it’s a long bonneted, rear drive coupe after all—but here the masses are more centralised and better controlled.