Sunbonneted

Quick meaning: Sunbonneted is an adjective meaning Wearing a sunbonnet.

Meaning

Wearing a sunbonnet.

Example Sentences

And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.

Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.

While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.

Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut very much on the same pattern, like paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness, a baby of such well-poised deportment that every noddle was kingly.

Word Forms

• sun-bonneted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sunhat, be-bonneted, bonneted, bebonneted, be-bonnetted, sunhatted.

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