Meanings of white bonnets in English

Not only is Big Brother watching you, he's issuing white bonnets.

On the road we passed many old-fashioned men, and women in their little white bonnets and their black dresses.

The drab dresses and pure white bonnets of many Friends were conspicuous among the dense moving crowd, as white doves seen against a dark cloud.

In the distance, a string of cartoon volcanoes, perfect calderas, and beyond, like a chimera, the High Andes, the brilliant white bonnets fading to grey.

Women wearing white bonnets and dark, long dresses with billowing aprons were carrying baskets to outdoor clothes lines, turning their heads away as strangers passed.

"For long," Tommy said, musing, "I resented other women in white bonnets; it seemed profanation."

"And see these little white bonnets!" and she held up two tiny round bonnets of white muslin; "these will be just the thing."