Meaning of blue bonnet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A traditional flat Scottish hat made of blue wool; a blue tam-o'-shanter.
2. Someone who wears such a hat; a Scotsman, especially a Scottish soldier.
3. Any of several blue flowering plants, especially cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and plants of the genus Scabiosa.
4. A blue Australian parrot, especially Northiella haematogaster.
5. Any of several North American species of Lupinus common in the southwestern US, especially Lupinus texensis and Lupinus subcarnosus.
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Examples

“The blue bonnet, a national badge, is disappearing rapidly.”

“While waiting for others to arrive⟳, Margaret Scott-Stewart, a big, friendly woman of 55 in a tartan tunic and blue bonnet, smokes Royals and sings 'Charlie Is My Darling'.”

“Rob⟳ soon gathered an unco band o' blue-bonnets at his back.”

“And when he at last⟳ succeeds in trapping a one-guinea blue bonnet he can sit⟳ happily for hours marvelling at the beauty of its feathers, the rich blue around its parrot's beak, the yellow of its lower breast in which lovely sea you find⟳ a soft-edged island of rich blood red.”

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