Meanings (ES + gloss)
capota • capucha • cofia • gorra
A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
In the hall, Scarlett saw a bonnet and put it on hurriedly, tying the ribbons under her chin. It was Melanie's black mourning bonnet and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she coul…
“Now,” said he, “put such a bonnet as that in the show window.” He did not fill his show-window up town with a lot of hats and bonnets to drive people away, and then sit on the bac…
bonete • capirote • capó • cofre
The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car, also known as a hood in chiefly Canada and the US.
People were reluctant to slam a bonnet shut in those days. One just did not slam bonnets and doors.
The car is burgundy red, wide and elegant, ten years old but still the boys are impressed and they run to touch it, pressing sticky handprints against the polished bodywork and try…
Phrases
Glengarry bonnetScotch bonnetTudor bonnetbee in one's bonnetblue bonnetbonnet bellflowerbonnet dramabonnet lairdbonnet macaquebonnet monkeybonnet piecebonnet ripperbonnet skewerbonnet snailbonnetedbonnetheadbonnetlessbonnetlikebonnetstringbride's bonnetbug in one's bonnetcoal-scuttle bonnetdoctor's bonnetgranny's bonnetold maid's bonneton it like a car bonnetpoke bonnetpoky bonnetscoop bonnetsun bonnetsun-bonnetedsunbonnetsunbonnetedunbonnetwar bonnet