Unbonneted

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  1.  Not wearing a bonnet; having the head uncovered, spec. as a mark of respect. Also fig.

1604.  Shaks., Oth., I. ii. 23. My demerites May speake (vnbonnetted) to as proud a Fortune As this that I haue reach’d. Ibid. (1605), Lear, III. i. 14. (Qo. 1). This night … vnbonneted he runnes, And bids what will take all.

1818.  Lamb, Sonn., x. Wet and chilly on thy deck I stood Unbonnetted and gazed upon the flood.

1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xxvi. ‘No,’ replied the gray-headed seneschal, who attended upon him unbonneted.

1863.  Thornbury, True as Steel, I. 208. Standing unbonneted before his good master.

  2.  Of the head: Not covered by a bonnet.

1820.  Scott, Monast., xi. Halbert, his head unbonneted,… sped up … the little valley of Glendearg.

1876.  Mar. M. Grant, Sun-Maid, ix. A broad parasol shielded her unbonneted head.