Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shade formerly worn by women on the front of a bonnet to protect the complexion from the sun; also, a large bonnet or broad-brimmed hat serving the same purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A projecting
bonnet orshade to protect thecomplexion . - noun obsolete A wide-brimmed
hat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon, between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
Criticisms and Interpretations. V. Walter Bagehot on the Waverley Novels
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
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Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon between an old-fashioned bonnet called a bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
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Her bongrace which she ware, with her French hood,
reesetee commented on the word bongrace
A shade or curtain formerly worn on the front of women's bonnets or caps to protect the complexion from the sun; a sunshade. Also a kind of broad-brimmed hat fitted to shade the face.
August 15, 2008