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bonneted

bonneted adjective: wearing or having a bonnet. Also the simple past and past participle of bonnet.

Adjective

bonneted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing or having a bonnet.
    • 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.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
    • 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...1927, Virginia Woolf, “Time Passes”, in To the Lighthouse, section 5
    Synonyms:
    bebonneted

Also used as

bonneted is also the simple past and past participle of bonnet.

Examples of bonneted in a sentence

  • To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
  • In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab.2007, Olof Brunninge, “Scania’s bonneted trucks”, in Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, Guillaume Soenen, editors, Organizational...

Synonyms of bonneted

Forms of bonneted

alternative formbonnetted

Origin of bonneted

From bonnet + -ed.

Words formed from bonneted

Questions about bonneted

What does bonneted mean?
Bonneted means wearing or having a bonnet.
How do you use bonneted in a sentence?
To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.
What part of speech is bonneted?
Bonneted is an adjective.

Words near bonneted in the dictionary

  1. bonnet skewer
  2. bonnet skewers
  3. bonnet snail
  4. bonnet snails
  5. Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome
  6. bonneted
  7. bonnethead
  8. bonnetheads
  9. bonnetiaceous
  10. bonnetier
  11. bonneting

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