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A large bonnet that shades the face
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sunbonnet
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women [syn: sunhat ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunbonnet \Sun"bon"net\, n. A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
Usage examples of sunbonnet.
She was dressed for work in a tweedy suit, looking very much like the all-wise Aunt Lil Fairchild, except for a large straw sunbonnet and white gloves.
He knew so little of panellings and carvings and apostle spoons and primrose Wedgwood that he was able to go on taking it for granted that Fidelity was a dead farmer's daughter and as simple as her sunbonnet.
There were big, rawboned men in the Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and women in fresh-washed ginghams and sunbonnets.
Sometimes this saddened him, for when he thought of Caroline, he thought of her in a, sunbonnet, wearing gloves, doubled over a hand cultivator, caring for the flowers she'd loved so much.
It showed a small girl in a white dress cut short above slim, black legs, standing in the porch of an old house, one hand swinging a sunbonnet, the other patting an Irish terrier which had planted its front paws against her waist and was looking up into her face with that grave melancholy characteristic of Irish terriers.
The car in front contained a sunbonneted mother and her little girl, who nursed a corncob doll.
The barefooted women wore sunbonnets and loose homespun gowns, some of linen made from nettles, while the children swarmed here and there and everywhere in any costume that chance had given them.
As an afterthought, she snatched one of the sunbonnets Nellie kept hanging on hooks by the back door and popped it on her head.
Madame, you simply must get yourself two sunbonnets, because if you lose one and allow the sun to strike those beautiful lips .