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Scotch bonnet
1. A Scotch cap (cf. bonnet n. 1.)
1759L. Wood Jrnl. 27 June in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1882) XIX. 70 It Came out in order this Day that no officer in y⊇ Rigement Should wear a Scotch bonet. a1803J. Beattie (title), To the Right Honourable Lady Charlotte Gordon, Dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with plumes. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xvii, Their Scotch bonnets, were ornamented with plumes of jet black feathers. 1876A'Beckett Holiday in Scot. Highlands 29 The sentry..in spite of wearing a Scotch bonnet, had evidently been born in the sister island.
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a. The fairy-ring mushroom, Marasmius oreades.
b. The bonnet-pepper, Capsicum tetragonum.
1696Ray Synopsis Stirp. Brit. (ed. 2) 13 Fungus lamellatus,..Scotch-bonnets. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Scotch⁓bonnets, a name for the champignon; also for a variety of capsicum. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 256 Every one is familiar with the common campignon or Scotch bonnets, which form those sour ringlets in the grassy meadows popularly called fairy rings. 1866in Treas. Bot. |