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Definition of bonnet in English: bonnetnounˈbɒnɪtˈbɑnət 1A woman's or child's hat tied under the chin and with a brim framing the face. Example sentencesExamples - A plump woman in a black dress with a white bonnet and apron had come out of the parlor, a feather duster in her hand.
- They had decided to revert to the old-style button-up tunics and bonnets.
- They left after Geneva found her bonnet and tied the strings under her chin perfectly, and they both put on their coats.
- Men often dressed in baggy black pants and wide-brimmed hats, while women wore voluminous black dresses, embroidered bodices, and lace bonnets.
- To heighten the tension, the Amish group is dressed in traditional attire that includes bonnets and suspenders.
- It was a straw bonnet with light blue lace ribbon around it.
- She had many bonnets, but the new style was a small hat that did nothing to shade the sun from your eyes but tied underneath your chin with beautiful silk strings.
- They often looked quite picturesque, the womenfolk in their bonnets and the men folk in their straw hats.
- Large turquoise bonnets with tiny birds around the brim.
- Dresses irked him, let alone such things as bonnets, gloves, and parasols.
- Easter is next week and that means little kids in cute dresses and bonnets, not down jackets and knit caps.
- Pioneer women wore bonnets and gloves to keep their skin white while plowing the fields.
- I began tying the bonnet ribbon under my chin as I made my way to her.
- From inside his coat he produced her bonnet, battered and dirty.
- She was a beautiful woman, her skin was fair and pale and her chestnut brown hair was soft a silky in the sun when she took her bonnet off.
- One was for prominent Bollywood directors, the other was for the Jane Austen society who turned up to the screening in Bath dressed in bonnets and top hats.
- Her curly blonde hair was pulled into a tight bun atop her head, and she was wearing a white bonnet that matched her black maids' frock and white apron.
- Straw boaters, summer bonnets and picnic baskets will be the order of the day although limited refreshments will be provided at the venue.
- Marietta slowly wrapped her light shawl around her shoulders, then tied on her bonnet, taking one last glance at Nathan.
- Women's costumes in Normandy include white, flared bonnets and dresses with wide, elbow-length sleeves.
- 1.1 A soft, round brimless hat like a beret, as worn by men and boys in Scotland.
Example sentencesExamples - And while these elderly gents may look faintly ridiculous when they troop out in their finery of tartan trews, Lincoln green tunics and feathered bonnets they are all serious people.
- Gurkhas and Scots Highlanders have always had a close mutual affinity and the Gurkha bagpipe and diced bonnet are directly drawn from those of their comrades.
- As he walks up the final fairway, waving a new tartan bonnet, the crowd rise in tribute to a great champion.
- After fierce fighting the Mahratta front line on the British left was broken by the 78th Highlanders, majestic giants in kilts and feathered bonnets.
- They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
- He is depicted clothed in this painting, wearing a feathered bonnet, and again confronts the viewer directly.
- Hard to miss, especially as they turned out in full dress uniform with plaids and feather bonnets on what turned out to be a warm day.
- Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
- His bald head was currently covered with a bonnet.
- 1.2Heraldry The velvet cap within a coronet.
Example sentencesExamples - The Knights and Ladies of the Garter were dressed in dark blue velvet robes, red velvet hoods, and black velvet bonnets topped with swaying ostrich plumes.
- Then the royal procession, with Baroness Amos carrying the cap of maintenance, a sort of scarlet bonnet with red trim.
- Hanover became a kingdom in 1816, and the bonnet was replaced by a German royal crown.
- 1.3 The ceremonial feathered headdress of a North American Indian.
Example sentencesExamples - Troy made a fabulous war bonnet and reported on the Plains Indians replete with buffalo, tepee, and travois information.
- He removes his war bonnet and plants his sword at the foot of the throne.
- I lived in Leicester, and when he came down that gangplank he was like 10 feet tall with this great war bonnet on.
- A respected art dealer is busted for selling a Cheyenne war bonnet.
- To represent the Illini with a Plains Indian war bonnet, and to dress the mascot in the military regalia of a Sioux warrior, is therefore totally inaccurate.
2British The hinged metal canopy covering the engine of a motor vehicle. North American term hood Example sentencesExamples - People shouted a warning to the 26-year-old, but he was unable to get out the way and was thrown over the car's bonnet, landing on the road.
- Most importantly, the cars may look old, but purring under the bonnet are state-of-the-art Ford engines.
- They removed the bonnet and the air filter but took nothing else.
- On his arrival the criminals turned their guns on him, shooting his police car three times - damaging his vehicle bonnet, windshield and engine.
- Car manufacturers are packing ever-more technology into the dashboard and under the bonnet of vehicles.
- It drives really well, and it was surprisingly easy to manoeuvre, bearing in mind that long bonnet.
- The Hillman name appeared on the front of the bonnet and the headlight surrounds were painted rather than chromed.
- It had doors, bonnet, boot lid, seats and all manner of bits and bobs from other Avengers.
- The woman tried to drive off, but Gatty jumped on the bonnet and kicked the windscreen, smashing it.
- The combination of the view over the long curvaceous bonnet coupled with the chunky gearbox gives a false impression of size.
- The sleek looks of that sweeping bonnet with the racing style grille together with the rear spoiler just say ‘racing machine’ to me.
- The tires are brown, there's pretty arcing streaks along the car, in fetching pale beige, and blackened handprints round the bonnet and door handle.
- When the woman turned the car round in the road she threw herself on the bonnet.
- Will frowned and opened his door, coming round the car and pulling me up off the bonnet.
- I've got substantial front-end damage - bumper, bonnet, cross-member and sill.
- It certainly is ‘retro’ with the long bonnet, side scoops, round headlights, aggressive nose and the galloping horse insignia.
- Collard's race effectively ended, however, when his car's bonnet dramatically flew up into its windscreen and he was forced to pit for repairs.
- Underneath the bonnet stretching out in front is Jaguar's lovely V8.
- Progress was slow - is there really a 2-litre engine under the bonnet?
- As one of the thieves drove their car straight at him, he jumped on to the bonnet and smashed the windscreen with his elbow.
- I particularly like the reflections of the sky and the traffic lights in the car's bonnet.
- He suffered severe bruising and cuts to his arm and face and more than £1,000 worth of damage to his car - mainly to the windows and bonnet.
- There is nothing he loves more than opening the bonnet of his Vauxhall Nova and getting his hands covered in oil.
- Have a good fiddle with the doors, boot, bonnet and windows to make sure they all work as they should.
- The designers have also given the Ranger a new bonnet, grille, bumper and headlamps.
- Even with its long saloon body and big proud bonnet, this car feels and reacts like a sports car.
- He got out of his car to chase after the youths and met another driver whose car bonnet had been bit by a brick.
- A family who left their £23,000 car with an airport parking firm while they went on holiday returned to find it caked in mud and the doors and bonnet damaged.
- The Saxo should be well behaved around town as long as you remember that there is a lot of power under that sleek bonnet.
- There's a round thing that fits in a hole to close the bonnet, and it's been jammed down very, very securely.
- Most obvious changes are at the front end in the bonnet and front bumper and at the back where a new lamp design has been added.
- And while it is easy to forget what lies under the bonnet, the engine will not object to a polish and shine as well.
- On top of that goes a neat Jaguar-style rear and front grille along with some familiar Ford door and bonnet styling.
- The officer suffered a serious head wound when she was thrown from the car's bonnet while trying to stop it leaving the car park.
- The front bonnet affords extra crumple space in the event of an accident, and both driver and passenger airbags are standard.
- Every time he reverses he crushes someone's bonnet.
- Legislation is going to demand that the front of a car must absorb up to 700 Joules of impact energy on the front edge of the bonnet.
- Rising over the bonnet and windscreen, the airflow is smooth.
- Sold only in Britain, it's styled to look like the flagship model, but under the bonnet you get a diesel engine that makes the sounds of the canal when you start it up.
- The compact, boxy design was very forward looking in its day and is still very striking now, with its dramatic overhanging bonnet and cute round tail-lights.
3A cowl on a chimney. Example sentencesExamples - Bonnet cowl with collar available with 75mm deep collar for ornamental chimney pots.
- The insert on the top is often called the Hood or bonnet top, and is frequently incorrectly mistaken as a terminal that can be used with a live flue.
- This is a method and apparatus for providing a flashing system for a chimney-bonnet positioned on a chimney of a building structure.
- Should I not have the Chimney Cowl in stock I will put on the Mesh Bonnet Cowl (pictured above right), these both cost the same to supply and fit.
- Also called the bonnet, the chimney cap is the cornice at the top of the chimney.
4Sailing
historical An additional canvas laced to the foot of a sail to catch more wind. Example sentencesExamples - For fine weather sailing one or two ‘bonnets’ are added to the foot of the sail; we sailed with one bonnet of 210 sqft added to the main.
- Another way to reduce sail is to build a sail with removable sections called bonnets and drabbiers.
- When a greater spread of sail was required, a piece called a bonnet was added to the foot of the sail, and a further piece called a drabbler could be added to that.
- When you shortened sail, you began by lowering the yard a bit, removing a bonnet, and re-reeving tacks and sheets.
- Seventeenth century square riggers often had a bonnet - an additional horizontal panel of sail-that could be laced to the main, giving it some flexibility.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a soft brimless hat for men): from Old French bonet, from medieval Latin abonnis 'headgear'. sense 1 dates from the late 15th century. A type of soft brimless hat for men was once known as a bonnet. The source is Old French bonet, from medieval Latin abonnis ‘headgear’. In the late 15th century it came to be used for the distinctive type of hat worn by a woman or a child with a brim framing the face and ribbons tied under the chin.
Definition of bonnet in US English: bonnetnounˈbɑnətˈbänət 1A woman's or child's hat tied under the chin and with a brim framing the face. Example sentencesExamples - Marietta slowly wrapped her light shawl around her shoulders, then tied on her bonnet, taking one last glance at Nathan.
- Straw boaters, summer bonnets and picnic baskets will be the order of the day although limited refreshments will be provided at the venue.
- One was for prominent Bollywood directors, the other was for the Jane Austen society who turned up to the screening in Bath dressed in bonnets and top hats.
- It was a straw bonnet with light blue lace ribbon around it.
- Women's costumes in Normandy include white, flared bonnets and dresses with wide, elbow-length sleeves.
- To heighten the tension, the Amish group is dressed in traditional attire that includes bonnets and suspenders.
- Large turquoise bonnets with tiny birds around the brim.
- She had many bonnets, but the new style was a small hat that did nothing to shade the sun from your eyes but tied underneath your chin with beautiful silk strings.
- A plump woman in a black dress with a white bonnet and apron had come out of the parlor, a feather duster in her hand.
- Her curly blonde hair was pulled into a tight bun atop her head, and she was wearing a white bonnet that matched her black maids' frock and white apron.
- From inside his coat he produced her bonnet, battered and dirty.
- Men often dressed in baggy black pants and wide-brimmed hats, while women wore voluminous black dresses, embroidered bodices, and lace bonnets.
- I began tying the bonnet ribbon under my chin as I made my way to her.
- She was a beautiful woman, her skin was fair and pale and her chestnut brown hair was soft a silky in the sun when she took her bonnet off.
- They had decided to revert to the old-style button-up tunics and bonnets.
- They often looked quite picturesque, the womenfolk in their bonnets and the men folk in their straw hats.
- Dresses irked him, let alone such things as bonnets, gloves, and parasols.
- They left after Geneva found her bonnet and tied the strings under her chin perfectly, and they both put on their coats.
- Easter is next week and that means little kids in cute dresses and bonnets, not down jackets and knit caps.
- Pioneer women wore bonnets and gloves to keep their skin white while plowing the fields.
- 1.1 A soft, round brimless hat like a beret, as worn by men and boys in Scotland.
Example sentencesExamples - Hard to miss, especially as they turned out in full dress uniform with plaids and feather bonnets on what turned out to be a warm day.
- Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
- After fierce fighting the Mahratta front line on the British left was broken by the 78th Highlanders, majestic giants in kilts and feathered bonnets.
- They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
- Gurkhas and Scots Highlanders have always had a close mutual affinity and the Gurkha bagpipe and diced bonnet are directly drawn from those of their comrades.
- And while these elderly gents may look faintly ridiculous when they troop out in their finery of tartan trews, Lincoln green tunics and feathered bonnets they are all serious people.
- His bald head was currently covered with a bonnet.
- As he walks up the final fairway, waving a new tartan bonnet, the crowd rise in tribute to a great champion.
- He is depicted clothed in this painting, wearing a feathered bonnet, and again confronts the viewer directly.
- 1.2Heraldry The velvet cap within a coronet.
Example sentencesExamples - Then the royal procession, with Baroness Amos carrying the cap of maintenance, a sort of scarlet bonnet with red trim.
- The Knights and Ladies of the Garter were dressed in dark blue velvet robes, red velvet hoods, and black velvet bonnets topped with swaying ostrich plumes.
- Hanover became a kingdom in 1816, and the bonnet was replaced by a German royal crown.
- 1.3 The ceremonial feathered headdress of a North American Indian.
Example sentencesExamples - I lived in Leicester, and when he came down that gangplank he was like 10 feet tall with this great war bonnet on.
- A respected art dealer is busted for selling a Cheyenne war bonnet.
- To represent the Illini with a Plains Indian war bonnet, and to dress the mascot in the military regalia of a Sioux warrior, is therefore totally inaccurate.
- Troy made a fabulous war bonnet and reported on the Plains Indians replete with buffalo, tepee, and travois information.
- He removes his war bonnet and plants his sword at the foot of the throne.
2British The hinged metal canopy covering the engine of an automobile; the hood. Example sentencesExamples - On his arrival the criminals turned their guns on him, shooting his police car three times - damaging his vehicle bonnet, windshield and engine.
- Have a good fiddle with the doors, boot, bonnet and windows to make sure they all work as they should.
- A family who left their £23,000 car with an airport parking firm while they went on holiday returned to find it caked in mud and the doors and bonnet damaged.
- The officer suffered a serious head wound when she was thrown from the car's bonnet while trying to stop it leaving the car park.
- On top of that goes a neat Jaguar-style rear and front grille along with some familiar Ford door and bonnet styling.
- There's a round thing that fits in a hole to close the bonnet, and it's been jammed down very, very securely.
- Collard's race effectively ended, however, when his car's bonnet dramatically flew up into its windscreen and he was forced to pit for repairs.
- And while it is easy to forget what lies under the bonnet, the engine will not object to a polish and shine as well.
- Every time he reverses he crushes someone's bonnet.
- The woman tried to drive off, but Gatty jumped on the bonnet and kicked the windscreen, smashing it.
- The designers have also given the Ranger a new bonnet, grille, bumper and headlamps.
- As one of the thieves drove their car straight at him, he jumped on to the bonnet and smashed the windscreen with his elbow.
- It certainly is ‘retro’ with the long bonnet, side scoops, round headlights, aggressive nose and the galloping horse insignia.
- Even with its long saloon body and big proud bonnet, this car feels and reacts like a sports car.
- Car manufacturers are packing ever-more technology into the dashboard and under the bonnet of vehicles.
- It had doors, bonnet, boot lid, seats and all manner of bits and bobs from other Avengers.
- The tires are brown, there's pretty arcing streaks along the car, in fetching pale beige, and blackened handprints round the bonnet and door handle.
- Legislation is going to demand that the front of a car must absorb up to 700 Joules of impact energy on the front edge of the bonnet.
- Most importantly, the cars may look old, but purring under the bonnet are state-of-the-art Ford engines.
- He suffered severe bruising and cuts to his arm and face and more than £1,000 worth of damage to his car - mainly to the windows and bonnet.
- He got out of his car to chase after the youths and met another driver whose car bonnet had been bit by a brick.
- When the woman turned the car round in the road she threw herself on the bonnet.
- Sold only in Britain, it's styled to look like the flagship model, but under the bonnet you get a diesel engine that makes the sounds of the canal when you start it up.
- I particularly like the reflections of the sky and the traffic lights in the car's bonnet.
- Underneath the bonnet stretching out in front is Jaguar's lovely V8.
- The compact, boxy design was very forward looking in its day and is still very striking now, with its dramatic overhanging bonnet and cute round tail-lights.
- The sleek looks of that sweeping bonnet with the racing style grille together with the rear spoiler just say ‘racing machine’ to me.
- People shouted a warning to the 26-year-old, but he was unable to get out the way and was thrown over the car's bonnet, landing on the road.
- The Saxo should be well behaved around town as long as you remember that there is a lot of power under that sleek bonnet.
- The front bonnet affords extra crumple space in the event of an accident, and both driver and passenger airbags are standard.
- The combination of the view over the long curvaceous bonnet coupled with the chunky gearbox gives a false impression of size.
- Rising over the bonnet and windscreen, the airflow is smooth.
- Progress was slow - is there really a 2-litre engine under the bonnet?
- The Hillman name appeared on the front of the bonnet and the headlight surrounds were painted rather than chromed.
- Will frowned and opened his door, coming round the car and pulling me up off the bonnet.
- There is nothing he loves more than opening the bonnet of his Vauxhall Nova and getting his hands covered in oil.
- Most obvious changes are at the front end in the bonnet and front bumper and at the back where a new lamp design has been added.
- It drives really well, and it was surprisingly easy to manoeuvre, bearing in mind that long bonnet.
- I've got substantial front-end damage - bumper, bonnet, cross-member and sill.
- They removed the bonnet and the air filter but took nothing else.
3A cowl on a chimney. Example sentencesExamples - The insert on the top is often called the Hood or bonnet top, and is frequently incorrectly mistaken as a terminal that can be used with a live flue.
- This is a method and apparatus for providing a flashing system for a chimney-bonnet positioned on a chimney of a building structure.
- Bonnet cowl with collar available with 75mm deep collar for ornamental chimney pots.
- Also called the bonnet, the chimney cap is the cornice at the top of the chimney.
- Should I not have the Chimney Cowl in stock I will put on the Mesh Bonnet Cowl (pictured above right), these both cost the same to supply and fit.
4Sailing
historical An additional canvas laced to the foot of a sail to catch more wind. Example sentencesExamples - For fine weather sailing one or two ‘bonnets’ are added to the foot of the sail; we sailed with one bonnet of 210 sqft added to the main.
- Seventeenth century square riggers often had a bonnet - an additional horizontal panel of sail-that could be laced to the main, giving it some flexibility.
- Another way to reduce sail is to build a sail with removable sections called bonnets and drabbiers.
- When a greater spread of sail was required, a piece called a bonnet was added to the foot of the sail, and a further piece called a drabbler could be added to that.
- When you shortened sail, you began by lowering the yard a bit, removing a bonnet, and re-reeving tacks and sheets.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a soft brimless hat for men): from Old French bonet, from medieval Latin abonnis ‘headgear’. bonnet (sense 1) dates from the late 15th century. |