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sunbonnets

sunbonnets is the plural of sunbonnet.

Meaning of sunbonnet

Noun

sunbonnet (plural sunbonnets)

  1. A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
    • “Put on your sunbonnet,” she ordered.
      “Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don’t make me wear that horrid thing.”
      Aunt Elizabeth, wasting no further words, picked up the bonnet and tied it on Emily’s head. Emily had to yield. But from the depths of the sunbonnet issued a voice, defiant though tremulous.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon
  2. A plant of the genera Leibnitzia or Chaptalia, native to Asia and the Americas.

Questions about sunbonnets

What is sunbonnets the plural of?
Sunbonnets is the plural of sunbonnet.

Words near sunbonnets in the dictionary

  1. sunblooms
  2. sunblotch
  3. sunblush
  4. sunbonnet
  5. sunbonneted
  6. sunbonnets
  7. sunbow
  8. sunbows
  9. sunbreak
  10. sunbreaks
  11. sunbrella

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