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bluebonnet

[ bloo-bon-it ]

noun

  1. the cornflower, Centaurea cyanus.
  2. a blue-flowered lupine, especially Lupinus subcarnosus, having spikes of light blue flowers with a white or yellow spot: the state flower of Texas.
  3. a broad, flat cap of blue wool, formerly worn in Scotland.
  4. a Scottish soldier who wore such a cap.
  5. any Scot.


bluebonnet

/ ˈbluːˌkæp; ˈbluːˌbɒnɪt /

noun

  1. other names for Balmoral 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of bluebonnet1

First recorded in 1675–85; blue + bonnet
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Instead, there are violet columns of bluebonnets, pillowy white flowers blooming on jimsonweed, and delicate red blooms dotting a Texas betony shrub.

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Yet styles sometimes veered off into pure theatrics like a feathered hood in bluebonnet and gauche fringed jacket.

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For example, Texas bluebonnets are native to the state but don’t typically bloom in Houston, Rushing says, because that area gets too much rainfall.

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Here in Texas, bluebonnets are usually gone by May.

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The bluebonnets popped up as ever this year, but the annual family portraits along the blooming Texas roadsides did not.

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