What is "bonneted"

Usage examples of "bonneted".

It was late afternoon and the women were returning from the fields as Isaiah's long, black automobile had passed, raising a cloud of dust, and the Prophet had emerged from the rear door to watch the line of bonneted women approaching.

Mallory peered in as a bonneted crone arose from a squat, adjusting her skirts.

Livid, in fact, skin flushed, her posture rigid with anger as she strode toward them, bonneted head bowed against the rain.

His footsteps echoed, and yet she did not turn until he was almost upon her, and then the bonneted head swiveled, and she caught her breath in a gasp.

Every class of criminal was here, from high-tobers— the classiest crooks—down to window smashers, sneak thieves, and the prettily bonneted bludgets who lured passersby into alleys before their accomplices would do the rest.

Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.

Aunt Pitty and Melanie, bonneted in their best were on the porch with Wade and Prissy, ready for their weekly round of calls.

It took place in the formal sitting room, with Father Steed, a wise, battle-worn, fat old man sprawled in an easy chair, representing the world’s oldest Christian religion, and Ruth Brinton, a prim, bonneted woman in gray, perched on the forward edge of a straight-backed chair her husband had built, representing the newest.

They seemed very prim as they marched up the gravel path to the house they had not visited in many years, the women in gray and bonneted, the men in black with flat hats perched above their austere faces, but all four walked with an eagerness that pleased Calhoun.