单词 | blue bonnet |
释义 | blue bonnetn. 1. a. In Scotland: a broad round flattened bonnet of blue woollen material; a blue tam-o'-shanter.Blue bonnets were formerly worn commonly in Scotland; in modern use, they are usually worn as part of traditional Scottish dress, or by certain army regiments. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 82 Wt bair blew bonattis and hobbeld schone. c1620 in W. Fraser Sutherland Bk. (1892) II. 359 Purge your countrey..from that vnciwill kynd of cloithes, such as plaids, mantels, truses, and blew bonnets. 1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 4 In a Jesuit's long Robes, and a Scotish blew Bonnet. 1759 F. Douglas Rural Love 11 A new blew bonnet and cockade, A shouder belt, and tartan plaid. 1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 459 The blue bonnet, a national badge, is disappearing rapidly. 1806 J. Cock Simple Strains 136 Wi' powder'd pats; The auld blue Bonnet's laid aside, They maun ha'e Hats! 1866 W. Grainge Sc. Pedlar 3 The apparition wore a broad blue bonnet and a maund or plaid like a Scotchman. 1950 ‘O. Douglas’ Farewell to Priorsford 149 Then a knock at the door, and in would limp a man with a jockey coat and a blew bonnet. 1983 Christian Sci. Monitor (Boston) (Nexis) 3 Nov. 35 Angus would stuff our heads full of descriptions of the drovers in their blue bonnets, crouched over a fire.., sharing a bowl of porridge with their dogs. 2009 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 23 Aug. 6 A big, friendly woman..in a tartan tunic and blue bonnet,..sings ‘Charlie Is My Darling’. b. In extended use. A person who wears a blue bonnet; esp. a Scottish soldier or border raider. Also more generally: a Scotsman. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier wearing specific dress > [noun] brigander1525 whitecoata1538 blue cap1598 green-coat1600 redcoatc1605 blue bonnet1637 greycoat1642 blackguard1745 red-jacket1828 busby-bag1868 red-clout1895 scarlet1896 khaki1899 1637 I. W. Valiant Scot v. sig. I3 His blacke Iackes hand in hand about his Court Shall march with our blew bonnets. 1641 T. Heywood Machiavels Ghost sig. C3 All the Blew Bonnets that are taken in the first battell. 1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions I. 308 Clark, and Ker write Palinodes and Sonnets, Adapted to the Genius of Blue Bonnets. 1785 J. Knox View Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. 368 The naval captains are particularly fond of the blue bonnets, viz. Highland sailors, for the most part, on account of their hardiness, temperance, and sober manners. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 286 Rob soon gathered an unco band o' blue-bonnets at his back. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. xi. 323 When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border. 1909 A. Lang Sir George Mackenzie vii. 66 It was the dream of Lauderdale..to lead an army of loyal, contented, Presbyterian blue bonnets over the Border. 2004 D. Brode From Walt to Woodstock iii. 64 The opening sequence depicts a pitched battle between uniformed English troops..and Rob Roy's Bluebonnets. 2. a. Any of several plants having blue or bluish flowers; esp. the cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, and several plants of (or formerly of) the genus Scabiosa (family Dipsacaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > corn-flower bluebottle?a1450 bluet?a1450 blue poppya1500 hawdod?1523 blue-blaw1538 cornflower1578 blue bonnet1777 blue cap1821 French pink1854 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 499 [Centaurea cyanus] Blue-bottles. Anglis.Blue bonnets: Scotis austral. In corn fields not uncommon. 1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 180 The [Centaurea] cyanus, Bluebottles, Bluebonnets or Blæworts, is a common annual in Cornfields. 1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 168 Its brilliant colour entitles it to its Scotch appellation of Blue bonnet. The French call it bluet. 1904 Canad. Horticulturist Sept. 397/1 Scabious—Scabiosa... known as the Pincushion Flower, Blue Bonnet, Blue Buttons, [etc.]. 1906 Trans. & Jrnl. Proc. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. Soc. 1904–5 408 I have heard centaurea montana spoken of as the horse-knot, and also as the blue bonnet. 1999 S. Osborn What’s in Name? 85 Native to the Mediterranean region but cultivated anywhere, bluebonnet has several uses. b. U.S. regional (Texas). Any of various blue-flowered lupins native to the southwestern United States; esp. (more fully Texas bluebonnet) either Lupinus texensis or L. subcarnosus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > lupins electreOE lupinec1420 flat-bean1597 fig-bean1657 tree lupine1882 blue bonnet1901 Russell1937 1901 Gen. Laws State Texas (Sess. 27th Legislature) 324 Lupinus subcarnosus (generally known as buffalo clover or blue bonnet) be and the same is hereby declared to be the State flower of Texas. 1923 J. Estill in Publications Texas Folklore Soc. 71 By this time blue-bonnets and ‘Osterblumen’..are out. 1928 National Geographic Mag. June 681 The bluebonnet rules a region more limited than do most State flowers. 1992 Times 6 Mar. 10/4 Mr. Bush spoke in Houston this week of the tears in his eyes when he came home to the sight of bluebonnet flowers in the fields. 2008 G. Clark Backroads of Texas Hill Country viii. 53 Texas bluebonnets are a common sight along roads and in pastures in the Hill Country from late March to early May. 3. a. The blue tit, Parus caeruleus. Cf. blue cap n. 5. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit) pinnockc1275 meese1480 nun1585 tomtit1648 blue titmouse1673 puffer1773 blue cap1797 pinchem1809 blue bonnet1811 pick-cheesea1825 blue tit1831 billy-biter1843 1811 S. McSkimin Hist. & Antiq. Carrickfergus App. 200 Cœruleus, blue Tit Mouse, Blue Bonnet; rather rare. 1838 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. Dublin 1 264 Four species of tits—the great tit-mouse, the cole-mouse, the common tit or blue bonnet, and the long-tailed tit-mouse. 1884 Cent. Mag. May 46/1 The long-tailed titmouse lays from ten to twelve eggs..; the blue-bonnet from six to eighteen. 1897 Avicultural Mag. June 143 The Blue Bonnet is a more satisfactory bird and quite as amusing: he loves anything in the way of fat. 1915 Little Folks Nov. 71/1 The cole tits and the blue tits—or blue bonnets, as I like to call them—are very light, and will cling to the swaying string of nuts and peck them as they hang. 1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 8 Blue tit... Blue Bonnet: Accrington. b. An Australian parrot with blue plumage on the head; esp. Northiella haematogaster, which has brownish plumage with a red and yellow underside and a deep blue forehead, face, and underwing. ΚΠ 1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. II. 62 Red-vented Parrakeet... Blue bonnet of the Colonists of New South Wales. 1888 W. H. Willshire Aborigines of Central Austral. 6 Parrots of many kinds—ring-necks, blue bonnets, and goolahs, furnish the natives with many a meal. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 20/4 A blue bonnet, in the absence of a lady of his own kind, mated with a pale-headed rosella hen. 1964 M. Sharland Territory of Birds 36 The gaudy Red-collared Parrots, usually referred to around Darwin as ‘blue bonnets’, have..heads of rich blue, fringed with a scarlet collar, and with vermilion beneath the wings. 1976 Reader's Digest Compl. Bk. Austral. Birds 287 There are four rather distinct forms of the blue bonnet. One, the Naretha parrot Northiella haematogaster narethae, lives along the south-western fringe of the Nullarbor Plain. 2003 Cage & Aviary Birds 6 Dec. 26/5 (advt.) Blue bonnet cocks £60 each. Derivatives ˌblue-ˈbonneted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a cap > types of cauled1393 coifed1520 biggined1607 night-capped1607 blue-bonneted1648 black-capped1658 red-capped1663 thrum-capped1708 white-capped1751 fool's-capped1849 calpacked1852 mob-capped1854 pileated1856 bearskinned1857 fezzed1864 tam-o'-shantered1894 cloth-capped1935 1648 D. Jenkins All is not Gould 4 Our Blew-bonnetted bonny Brethren did sweare by their Soules that they waud leeve & dey for the guds of the King and Kingdomes. 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 667 The blue-bonneted and plaided peasantry of the shires. 1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 12 Parents of the eight-to-14 year olds..may have grown up with Holly Hobbie, the blue-bonneted poster girl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1568 |
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