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English
Etymology
From bonnet + -ed.
Adjective
bonneted (not comparable)
- Wearing or having a bonnet.
1914, R Y Williams, H E Smith, Mine Gases and Safety Lamps, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, pages 42 and 44:Lamps may be either bonneted or unbonneted. […] Ackroyd and Best or Hailwood lamp / This is one of the best of the oil lamps. It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.
1927, Virginia Woolf, “Time Passes”, in To the Lighthouse, section 5:Rubbing the glass of the long looking-glass and leering sideways at her swinging figure a sound issued from her lips—something that had been gay twenty years before on the stage perhaps, had been hummed and danced to, but now, coming from the toothless, bonneted, care-taking woman, was robbed of meaning […]
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.
2007, Olof Brunninge, “Scania’s bonneted trucks”, in Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom, Guillaume Soenen, editors, Organizational Identity in Practice, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 26:In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab. Although the modular system made it possible to develop a bonneted cab with relatively little additional effort, there were costs associated with development and production.
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bonneted
- simple past and past participle of bonnet