bonneted
English
Alternative forms
- bonnetted
Etymology
bonnet + -ed
Adjective
bonneted (not comparable)
- Wearing or having a bonnet.
- 1914, R[obert] Y[oung] Williams; H[arvey] E[dson] Smith, Mine Gases and Safety Lamps, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, pages 42 and 44:
- Lamps may be either bonneted or unbonneted. […] Ackroyd and Best or Hailwood lamp / This is one of the best of the oil lamps. It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, "Time Passes," 5,
- Rubbing the glass of the long looking-glass and leering sideways at her swinging figure a sound issued from her lips—something that had been gay twenty years before on the stage perhaps, had been hummed and danced to, but now, coming from the toothless, bonneted, care-taking woman, was robbed of meaning […]
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
- To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.
- 2007, Olof Brunninge, “Scania’s bonneted trucks”, in Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, and Guillaume Soenen, editors, Organizational Identity in Practice, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 26:
- In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab. Although the modular system made it possible to develop a bonneted cab with relatively little additional effort, there were costs associated with development and production.
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Synonyms
- bebonneted
Derived terms
- long-bonneted
- unbonneted