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granny's bonnet en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Any of various flowering plants thought to resemble Victorian bonnets, especially a columbine (genus Aquilegia).
    • [G]oing up the O.s' path past the granny's bonnets to the front door, I'd enter this house of grey people washed with sweat and tears, and I'd feel the gentle flow of sunlight and morning drained away. 1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 222:

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