a. [f. BONNET sb. + -LESS.] Without a bonnet: in various senses.

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1827.  Standard, 25 Sept., 1/3. A group of barefooted, bonnetless boys, were seen gradually collecting around the elder’s door.

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1847.  E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ix. Standing bonnetless and shawlless.

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1848.  Clough, Bothie, II. A capless, bonnetless maiden.

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