Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of be-bonneted.
[…]; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady regnante crinolinâ.
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 12 more examples
Nurse Elsie lowered her pretty, bebonneted head, her blue eyes shining, her red lips caressing their little secret.
1915, Marie Scherr, The Immortal Gymnasts, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 303My 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.
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
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