Meaning of sunbonneted | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a sunbonnet.

not-comparable

Examples

“While he is at the front end⟳ selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.”

“Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut⟳ very much on the same pattern, like⟳ paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness, a baby of such well-poised deportment that every noddle was kingly.”

“And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve⟳ and dignity and fineness that they resented.”

“Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process⟳ of subduing the wilderness.”

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