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be-bonneted

be-bonneted adjective: wearing a bonnet.

Adjective

be-bonneted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a bonnet.
    • Then comes a phalanx of very fat, elderly ladies, be-bonneted, be-tippeted, be-furbeiowed, dreadful to follow and hopeless to pass.1827, [Marianne Spencer Hudson], “Embarrassments”, in Almack’s: A Novel, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. & J. Harper […], page 129
    • 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...1858 February, “The Anglican Priesthood”, in The Rambler. A Catholic Journal and Review., volume IX, London: Burns and Lambert, part L, pages 99–100
    Synonyms:
    bonneted

Synonyms of be-bonneted

Forms of be-bonneted

alternative formbebonneted
alternative formbe-bonnetted

Origin of be-bonneted

From be- + bonnet + -ed.

Questions about be-bonneted

What does be-bonneted mean?
Be-bonneted means wearing a bonnet.
What part of speech is be-bonneted?
Be-bonneted is an adjective.

Words near be-bonneted in the dictionary

  1. be-all and end-all
  2. be-all end-all
  3. be-alls
  4. be-alls and end-alls
  5. be-bearded
  6. be-bonneted
  7. be-bonnetted
  8. be-booted
  9. be-breeched
  10. be-cocked
  11. be-er

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