sunbonnet

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Recent Examples of sunbonnet There were crinoline explosions and Panama teardrops, tiny little fascinators and huge brimmed sunbonnets. Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 30 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunbonnet
Noun
  • She was last seen wearing black and red flannel pants, a gray hooded sweatshirt and a hair bonnet.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The prongs also allow people to get the steam right to the roots, something that can be tricky to do with a bonnet or cap.
    Megan McIntyre, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Channel a French painter with a Breton-style striped shirt and a beret, or pair a smock and palette for artistic flair, which can often be safer than a well-meaning but potentially misguided tribute to a historical figure.
    Ella Cerón, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Image Playground produced an image of a cool twenty-something in a beret without ChatGPT, but enabling that functionality resulted in a more convincing image.
    Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Howler monkey sounds rang through the auditorium as Irwin peered through a set of binoculars, before leaping off the hood and gliding across the ballroom toward Carson.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For each, the state placed hoods over the men's heads, strapped them in a chair, placed targets over their hearts, and shot them simultaneously with three bullets.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many of the protesters had covered their faces and wore long sleeves; one wore a sombrero.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
  • People started droping off costume accessories and dress-up requests — a sombrero for Cinco De Mayo, for example.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Turndown service includes a creative bite made by the resort’s pastry chef and displayed under a glass cloche.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • These possibilities—what to place inside a glass cloche and where to use them—are copious, perhaps lending even more reasons to love this reborn trend.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Most Common Breed of Egg-Laying Chicken is the White Leghorn The breed was first imported to America in 1828 from the Italian port city of Livorno; leghorn is an anglicization of the city's name.
    Fox News, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2015
Noun
  • Mitchell was the most quietly elegant of men, dressed in a costume—a homburg, a knitted vest, a tweed jacket—that seemed unchanged since the thirties, and speaking in a soft but confident North Carolina accent.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Optimo stocks a variety of styles, including homburgs, porkpies, straw Panamas, and fedoras, the last of which is seen here.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The camera department also attached RED Komodo cameras to Withers to capture his perspective during intense sports scenes, and at other moments simply attached a football helmet to the lens and had Wayans yell into it to replicate Cam’s point of view.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Kylo Ren helmet sits at the top of our best Lego Star Wars helmets page thanks to its striking and stunning look and its noticeable lack of stickers.
    Alexander Cox, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Sunbonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunbonnet. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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