Meaning of be-bonneted | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a bonnet.

not-comparable

Examples

“Then comes a phalanx of very fat, elderly ladies, be-bonneted, be-tippeted, be-furbeiowed, dreadful to follow⟳ and hopeless to pass⟳.”

“He has also repeatedly heard from a gentleman who was curate in a populous parish of London, that the practice of his fellow-curates was to range around the font the thirty or forty women who used every Sunday to bring⟳ children to be baptised, and then with one form⟳ of words to sprinkle the water round, without knowing or caring whether it touched the be-bonneted and be-capped children at all, or whether he only washed the nurses and godmothers.”

“In a many-coloured crowd, stocked and cravated with all the bravery of buff and plum-colour and blue, the bucks of the town passed and repassed with their high-waisted, straight-skirted, be-bonneted ladies upon their arms.”

“A be-bonneted Betty Prough (hers from Florence) and Leta Higgins chatting with a sytlish^([sic]) Rose Marie Walsh, Sheila Zwischenberger, Gigi Schmidt, Peggy Rapp, Anne Charpentier, Kay Potts and Kim Raschke.”

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