bonnet
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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
"The neighbours' kids used to bounce on the bonnet and we used to tell them off," said his wife, Susan.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025
Ann ties Virginia’s tiny bonnet on her and tells me to make sure I support her head.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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