| 单词 | dunstable bonnet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDunstable bonnet a. attributive. Designating a hat or bonnet made from a distinctive kind of plaited straw associated with Dunstable (see sense A. 3a), as Dunstable bonnet, Dunstable hat. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > made of specific material > other Leghorn1720 Dunstable1792 Milan1855 shaved1861 1792 Oracle 23 June (advt.) A very large Assortment of Dunstable, Leghorn, Willow, Caledonian, and other Fancy Hats and Bonnets. 1796 E. Hamilton Let. 21 Sept. in J. C. Jeaffreson Lady Hamilton & Nelson (1888) I. xviii. 317 Send me..a Dunstable hat, and some ribbands. 1826 J. Wilson et al. Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 94 I..found myself sitting in a pew between two very good-looking middle-aged women, in Dunstable bonnets, streaming with ribbons. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 681 Hall..went briskly into the ring, and tossed up his Dunstable straw with an air of confidence. 1903 A. E. Barr Black Shilling vi. 121 On her head was one of those pretty Dunstable hats, for which England has been famous from an unknown date. 2000 D. E. Pilato Retrieval of Legacy ii. 36 The Wethersfield bonnet and the Dunstable bonnet became popular American styles. < as lemmas |
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