be-bonneted

alternative bebonneted · alternative be-bonnetted

1. not comparableWearing a bonnet.

   Then comes a phalanx of very fat, elderly ladies, be-bonneted, be-tippeted, be-furbeiowed, dreadful to follow and hopeless to pass.

   1827, [Marianne Spencer Hudson], “Embarrassments”, in Almack’s: A Novel, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] J. & J. Harper […], page 129

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   He has also repeatedly heard from a gentleman who was curate in a populous parish of London, that the practice of his fellow-curates was to range around the font the thirty or forty women who used every Sunday to bring children to be baptised, and then with one form of words to sprinkle the water round, without knowing or caring whether it touched the be-bonneted and be-capped children at all, or whether he only washed the nurses and godmothers.

   1858 February, “The Anglican Priesthood”, in The Rambler. A Catholic Journal and Review., volume IX, London: Burns and Lambert, part L, pages 99–100

   In a many-coloured crowd, stocked and cravated with all the bravery of buff and plum-colour and blue, the bucks of the town passed and repassed with their high-waisted, straight-skirted, be-bonneted ladies upon their arms.

   1912 December, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Fall of Lord Barrymore”, in The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XLIV, number 264, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 609

   A be-bonneted Betty Prough (hers from Florence) and Leta Higgins chatting with a sytlish^([sic]) Rose Marie Walsh, Sheila Zwischenberger, Gigi Schmidt, Peggy Rapp, Anne Charpentier, Kay Potts and Kim Raschke.

   1997 June 22, The Galveston Daily News, page C1

   Synonyms: bonneted