bonneted

English

Alternative forms

• bonnetted

Etymology

From bonnet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

bonneted (not comparable)

1. Wearing or having a bonnet.
   • 1914, R[obert] Y[oung] Williams, H[arvey] E[dson] Smith, Mine Gases and Safety Lamps, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, pages 42 and 44:

     Lamps may be either bonneted or unbonneted. […] Ackroyd and Best or Hailwood lamp / This is one of the best of the oil lamps. It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.

   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, “Time Passes”, in To the Lighthouse‎^[1], section 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, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck‎^[2]:

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

   • 2007, Olof Brunninge, “Scania’s bonneted trucks”, in Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, Guillaume Soenen, editors, Organizational Identity in Practice, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 26:

     In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab. Although the modular system made it possible to develop a bonneted cab with relatively little additional effort, there were costs associated with development and production.

Synonyms

• bebonneted

Derived terms

• long-bonneted
• sun-bonneted, sunbonneted
• unbonneted

Verb

bonneted

1. simple past and past participle of bonnet