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Bonnet

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Braid Bonnet. The old Scotch cap, made of milled woollen, without seam or lining.

Glengarry Bonnet. The Highland bonnet, which rises to a point in front.

He has a green bonnet. Has failed in trade. In France it used to be customary, even in the seventeenth century, for bankrupts to wear a green bonnet (cloth cap).

He has a bee in his bonnet. (See Bee.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bones
Bonese
Bonfire
Bonhomie
Bonhomme (Un)
Boniface
Bonne (French)
Bonne Bouche (A)
Bonnet
Bonnet
Bonnet Lairds
Bonnet-piece
Bonnet Rouge
Bonnie Dundee
Bonnyclabber
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Bontemps
Bonus
Bonzes (sing. Bonze)
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