What is "donned"

Usage examples of "donned".

Don Quixote put on his armor, Sancho donned his outfit, and, riding his donkey, for he did not wish to leave him behind even though they had provided him with a horse, he joined the troop of hunters.

While she donned her robe he found his britches, took a pound note from them and pressed it into her hand.

The man donned his britches and was buttoning the openings when the two girls returned.

George donned a dark blue jacket and led the guardsmen across the warehouse floor, walking swiftly toward the cubicle with the concealed gates.

One blouseless woman claimed that she had donned a skirt only because it was her time of the month.

She wore the same plain clothes she had donned the night of the eclipse, and her hair retained the unforgettable, jagged steak of gray.

It was in this same second-best suit, pressed between mattresses during the voyage, and donned with self-conscious anticipation under a porthole suddenly filled with a static landscape instead of the sea and the sky, that he had emerged from the boat, with that shiny flattened look of sailors ashore.

For, as the cat was called by Nature to be an ornithophage, so was Francis called by his own nature hungrily to devour such knowledge as could be taught in those days, and, because there were no schools but the monastic schools, he had donned the habit first of a postulant, later of a novice.

Joshua vaulted out of the sink and donned his habit without bothering to dry himself or put on his underwear.

He rolled it into a pack, donned a night suit, and went outside to join his brother in the darkness.

He could see that she had donned some of the clothing, but one trouser-leg was rolled up, and she had tied a rag tightly about her ankle.

Never one to turn my back upon a virgin and having only respect and compassion for a young woman so far cheated of a gentle and loving wedding night, I donned the mask and the cloak and went about the enterprise, vowing that I should wring from the young woman tears of ecstasy or count myself a damned soul, and suffice it to say that I emerged from the bedroom some forty-five minutes later a victor on the Stairway to Heaven, having achieved my highest goals.

He smiled and shook his head over some of the things they were saying as he donned some shorts and tied his running shoes.

Somehow he managed to drag himself to the shower and then donned his gear for the wedding.

Narcissa Malfoy, in contrast, had donned sapphire-blue robes with silver threads permeating the fabric, so that she sparkled as she moved.