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

  • “Do nothing but rise, unbonnet yourself, and be silent.”

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • 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.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • 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

  • 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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