Sunbonnet

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.

    "“Put on your sunbonnet,” she ordered. “Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don’t make me wear that horrid thing.” Aunt Elizabeth, wasting no further words, picked up the bonnet and tied it on Emily’s head. Emily had to yield. But from the depths of the sunbonnet issued a voice, defiant though tremulous."

  2. 2
    a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women wordnet
  3. 3
    A plant of the genera Leibnitzia or Chaptalia, native to Asia and the Americas.

Etymology

From sun + bonnet.

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