English

Adjective

bonneted ‎(not comparable)

1. Wearing a bonnet.
   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, "Time Passes," 5,

     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 meaning […]

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18,

     To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.

Derived terms

• long-bonneted
• unbonneted