What is "bonnets"

Usage examples of "bonnets".

Madame Mantalini's shows-rooms were on the first-floor: a fact which was notified to the nobility and gentry by the casual exhibition, near the handsomely curtained windows, of two or three elegant bonnets of the newest fashion, and some costly garments in the most approved taste.

The bonnets were no sooner fairly on, than Miss Knag and Madame Mantalini fell into convulsions of admiration.

Miss Knag vanished without another word, and in all reasonable time was replaced by Kate, who took off the new bonnets and put on the old ones: blushing very much to find that the old lord and the two young ladies were staring her out of countenance all the time.

Were it not for the churches, indeed, I think there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.

The little bonnets and the large hats were ranged in long rows, and their stillness was for a long time so unbroken, that I could hardly persuade myself the figures they surmounted were alive.

The pretty ladies too, with their expansive bonnets, any one of which might handsomely have filled the space allotted to three,--how sad the change!

At New York, as every where else, they show within, during the time of service, like beds of tulips, so gay, so bright, so beautiful, are the long rows of French bonnets and pretty faces.

She and Serena discussed materials, trimmings, and bonnets, with Mary and Alice hanging on every word.

Alathea looked up as Mary and Alice came clattering down the stairs, bonnets on, ribbons streaming, her own bonnet dangling from Mary's hand.

Amid serious discussion of ribbons, bonnets and reticules, they all retired upstairs to prepare for the projected excursion.

She once or twice exchanged congratulations with me on our private and leisurely view of the bonnets and shawls.

I don’t care to see people with hats and bonnets on, and all standing up and walking about.

Swancourt’s servants have been here—they ran in out of the rain when going for a walk—and I assure you the state of their bonnets was frightful.

They were concentrating on getting themselves back to normal, straightening their bonnets, picking grass off themselves, winding down.

They sat there, soaking wet even under cover, their bonnets like mops.