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Braid Bonnet. The old Scotch cap, made of milled woollen, without seam or lining.
Glengarry Bonnet. The Highland bonnet, which rises to a point in front.
He has a green bonnet. Has failed in trade. In France it used to be customary, even in the seventeenth century, for bankrupts to wear a green bonnet (cloth cap).
He has a bee in his bonnet. (See Bee.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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