Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To uncover the head by taking off the bonnet or, by extension, any head-dress.
- To remove the bonnet or, by extension, any head-dress from, as the head, or the wearer of the head-dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To take a bonnet from; to take off one's bonnet; to uncover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove a
bonnet from.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
un- + bonnet
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Examples
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“Do nothing but rise, unbonnet yourself, and be silent.”
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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I went up to unbonnet, etc.; came down to tea; the little lady worked away and hardly spoke but I had time for a good look at her.
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He never took off his hat in the presence of his fellow-men; and as he never encountered the fair sex, except in the person of the barmaid at a sporting public, he was not called upon to unbonnet himself in ceremonious obeisance to lovely woman.
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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At a signal from me he shall make me a low obeisance, and unbonnet to me. "
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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