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† ˈbongrace Obs.
Also 6 bun-, 6–7 bone-, boone-, 7 bond-, boun-grace.
[a. F. bonne-grace ‘th' vppermost flap of the down-hanging taile of a French-hood (whence belike our Boon-grace)’ Cotgr.; f. bonne good, grace grace.]
1. A shade or curtain formerly worn on the front of women's bonnets or caps to protect the complexion from the sun; a sunshade. (See quot. 1617; the later one may consequently belong to 2.)
1530Palsgr. 907 The bone grace, le moufflet. 1533Pardoner & Fr. in Hazl. Dodsl. I. 203 Her bongrace which she ware, with her French hood, When she went out always for sun-burning. 1595R. Wilson Pedlar's Proph. B ij, Fillets and bungraces. 1604Dekker King's Entert. 311 This boon-grace hee made of purpose to keepe his face from heate. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. iv. i. 170 A French shadow of veluet to defend them from the Sunne, which our Gentle⁓women of old borrowed from the French, and called them Bonegraces, now altogether out of vse with us. 1636Davenant Platon. Lovers Wks. (1673) 411 Had she been but old enough to wear a Bongrace.
fig.1609Heywood Brit. Troy vi. civ. 137 A Grove through which the lake doth run, Making his bowes a Bon⁓grace from the Sun.
2. A broad-brimmed hat fitted to shade the face. arch. or Obs.
1606Holland Sueton. 75 A broad brim'd Hat [marg. or Bond-grace = petasatus] upon his head. 1638Songs Costume (1849) 140 Straw hats shall be no more bongraces, From the bright sun to hide your faces. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 107 Her Bongrace of wended Straw. 1815Scott Guy M. iii, An old-fashioned bonnet called a bon-grace.
3. ‘Junk-fenders; for booming off obstacles from a ship's sides or bows’. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |