sunbonneted

English

Etymology

From sunbonnet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

sunbonneted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a sunbonnet.
    • 1866, “Mr. Dod’s Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine‎[1], volume 32, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 208:
      While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.
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    • 1913, Marion Hill, The Lure of Crooning Water‎[2], page 45:
      Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut very much on the same pattern, like paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness, a baby of such well-poised deportment that every noddle was kingly.
    • 1923, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC:
      And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.
    • 1953, Dorothy M. Johnson, Journey to the Fort; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 80:
      As they came closer to the moving wagons, she could see a sunbonneted woman walking beside the last one, holding a small boy by the hand.
    • 2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West‎[3]:
      Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.

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