bebonneted

See also: be-bonneted

English

Adjective

bebonneted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of be-bonneted
   • 1861, Charles Reade, chapter XLIX, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co., page 127, column 1:

     […]; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady regnante crinolinâ.

   • 1915, Marie Scherr, The Immortal Gymnasts, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 303:

     Nurse Elsie lowered her pretty, bebonneted head, her blue eyes shining, her red lips caressing their little secret.

   • 1951 February 24, Cecil John McHale, “Career of a Choirboy”, in Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, volume LVII, number 14, page 104, column 1:

     My own first effort at creative music, I am told, was made at the age of about six months, when the bebonneted future librarian took to whistling in his baby carriage.