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Webster 1913 Edition


Sunbonnet

Sun′bon′net

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Noun.
A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, – worn by women as a protection against the sun.

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sunbonnet

sunbonnet

English

Noun

sunbonnet (plural sunbonnets)

  1. A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
    • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi
      She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.

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