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[bon-it] / ˈbɒn ɪt /


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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Depending on your mood, you might continue with Royal Red shrimp served raw with dots of fermented Scotch bonnet pepper and a dusting of spiced red hibiscus flower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Alex said she screamed for help as cars drove past, unsuccessfully trying to smash the window with her keys before calling police as the bonnet began to turn brown.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

"I'm usually wearing my bonnet, no makeup and I just pick up the phone and start yapping," she says.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

I reach up and slowly pull the bonnet off my head.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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