Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bonnet.
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Examples
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Maybe ye think the puir lassie has a bee in her bannet; but ye ken yoursell if naebody but wise folk were to marry, the warld wad be ill peopled.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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“Oh, weel eneugh, weel eneugh — sometimes he will fling in a lang word or a bit of learning that our farmers and bannet lairds canna sae weel follow — But what of that, as I am aye telling them? — them that pay stipend get aye the mair for their siller.”
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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The way to catch a bird is no to fling your bannet at her.
Rob Roy 2005
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Det mest konstruktive som kom ut av dagens telefonselgersamtale, var når jeg mistet beherskelsen og bannet over telefonselgerne jeg ikke blir kvitt.
Archive 2004-11-01 Torill 2004
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Det mest konstruktive som kom ut av dagens telefonselgersamtale, var når jeg mistet beherskelsen og bannet over telefonselgerne jeg ikke blir kvitt.
Stop phone advertising! Torill 2004
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Thirdly, Nosey, wi 'his kilt, and bannet, and red coat, was, to a' intents and purposes, as like a human creatur as a monkey could weel be.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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Odds, man, I dressed him up like a Heelandman, and put a kilt upon him, and a lang-tailed red coat, and a blue bannet, which for security's sake I tied, woman-like, below his chin wi 'twa bits of yellow ribbon.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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It was neither the ane nor the ither, but a strong middle-aged, red-faced Heelandman, wi 'specks on, and wi' a kilt and a bannet, by a 'the world like my monkey's.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various
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Isobel Rutherford said that 'Sathan was in the likness of a man with gray cloathes and ane blue bannet, having ane beard'; Bessie Henderson, 'the
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Let every head wear it's ane bannet, and the distractions o 'the
Rob Roy 1887
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