sunbonneted
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sunbonneted (not comparable)
- Wearing a sunbonnet.
- 1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine[1], volume 32, page 208:
- 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.
- 1913, Marion Hill, The Lure of Crooning Water[2], page 45:
- 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.
- 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
- And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.
- 2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West[3]:
- 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.