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bebonneted en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of be-bonneted.
Nurse Elsie lowered her pretty, bebonneted head, her blue eyes shining, her red lips caressing their little secret.
1915, Marie Scherr, The Immortal Gymnasts, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 303:My own first effort at creative music, I am told, was made at the age of about six months, when the bebonneted future librarian took to whistling in his baby carriage.
1951 February 24, Cecil John McHale, “Career of a Choirboy”, in Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, volume LVII, number 14, page 104, column 1:[…]; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady regnante crinolinâ.
1861, Charles Reade, chapter XLIX, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co., page 127, column 1: