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bonnet

[ UK /bˈɒnɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑnət/ ]
VERB
  1. dress in a bonnet
NOUN
  1. a hat tied under the chin
  2. protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
    there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars
    the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine

How To Use bonnet In A Sentence

  • As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Sole Music
  • Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
  • Her mouth opened, and stayed so, as her pale eyes widened under the close bonnet she wore.
  • But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. Wuthering Heights
  • Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
  • Blue Bonnet sighed deeply as she recalled the averted tragedy. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
  • And there are no bonnets or bowler hats. The Sun
  • Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • It has a carbon fibre bonnet, the rear windows are plastic and the radio and air-con are ditched. The Sun
  • The Pontiac was travelling north along Bonnet Creek Road in the left-hand filter lane while the Ford van was travelling south on the inside lane, according to police in Florida.
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