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bonnet
1[ bon-it ]
noun
- a hat, usually tying under the chin and often framing the face, formerly much worn by women but now worn mostly by children.
- Informal. any hat worn by women.
- Chiefly Scot. a man's or boy's cap.
- a bonnetlike headdress:
an Indian war bonnet.
- any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices.
- a cowl, hood, or wind cap for a fireplace or chimney, to stabilize the draft.
- the part of a valve casing through which the stem passes and that forms a guide and seal for the stem.
- a chamber at the top of a hot-air furnace from which the leaders emerge.
- Chiefly British. an automobile hood.
- Nautical. a supplementary piece of canvas laced to the foot of a fore-and-aft sail, especially a jib, in light winds.
verb (used with object)
- to put a bonnet on.
Bonnet
2[ baw-ne ]
noun
- Georges [zhaw, r, zh], 1889–1973, French statesman.
bonnet
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
- any of various hats worn, esp formerly, by women and girls, usually framing the face and tied with ribbons under the chin
- Also calledin Scotlandbunnetˈbʌnɪt
- a soft cloth cap
- formerly, a flat brimless cap worn by men
- the hinged metal part of a motor vehicle body that provides access to the engine, or to the luggage space in a rear-engined vehicle
- a cowl on a chimney
- nautical a piece of sail laced to the foot of a foresail to give it greater area in light winds
- (in the US and Canada) a headdress of feathers worn by some tribes of American Indians, esp formerly as a sign of war
Bonnet
/ ô-ĕ′ /
- Swiss naturalist who discovered parthenogenesis when he observed that aphid eggs could develop without fertilization. Bonnet was also one of the first scientists to study photosynthesis.
Other yvlog Forms
- Dzn· adjective
- Dzn· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bonnet1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bonnet1
Idioms and Phrases
see bee in one's bonnet .Example Sentences
It failed to ignite, but he then poured the petrol from a second Molotov cocktail bottle on to the bonnet of another police van and set it alight.
Footage of the dramatic collision in the Seaforth Road area on Friday afternoon shows the man flipping over the car bonnet before getting up and striding towards another officer.
Officers were shocked to find the abandoned vehicle with the bonnet in a ditch and the back against overhead power lines near the city of Saint-Malo on Saturday.
A survivor of the Omagh bomb has described how she saw a niece of hers "laying on the bonnet of a car with a piece of metal sticking out of her back".
But there’s more to Gilpin — much, much more — than bonnets and hoopskirts.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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