| 单词 | bonnet man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbonnet man bonnet man n. a person who wears a bonnet; spec. †(a) a Scottish Highlander (obsolete); (b) a North American Indian who wears a ceremonial feathered headdress (cf. sense 6).Quot. 1746 illustrates an instance of a similar compound with the sense ‘a Scottish Highlander’ in which blue bonnet n. 1 is the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland ScoteOE Irish Scota1387 Irish Scot1521 Irishman1529 Moravian1577 Moravea1600 highlander1610 lowlander1621 trewsman1639 Whiglander1682 northland1698 Norlander1716 plaid1749 bonnet man1763 plaid-man1763 norland1768 Irish Gael1771 Galwegian1774 southern1812 Gallovidian1875 Fifer1887 Clydesider1921 teuchter1940 1746 Foundling Hosp. for Wit No. 3. 15 O how the blue Bonnet Men trembled!] 1763 London Chron. 4 Aug. 115/3 Several people dressed in blue bonnets and tartans..got upon the stage from the gallery, and the bonnet-men seized the bag. 1811 C. James New Mil. Dict. (1816) 57/1 Bonnet worn by the Highlanders, hence called Bonnet-men. 1827 in G. R. Kinloch Ballad Bk. 73 There cam bonnetmen following the pleugh. 1977 R. Laubin & G. Laubin Indian Dances N. Amer. (1989) xvii. 345 When the bonnets were finished, the new Bonnet Men brought hot coals into the lodge for making more incense. 2004 M. Sandoz Crazy Horse (ed. 2) 317 The eighteen-year-old son of Red Cloud shook out a long-tailed war bonnet and put it on as though he were really a bonnet man of the akicita. < as lemmas |
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