英语词汇bonnet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bonnet
词源	bonnet. Back in the 14th century, when the word is first re- corded, a bonnet wasn’t a woman’s hat but a brimless man’s hat, its name deriving from the Old French bonnet. (“Off goes his bonnet to an Oyster-wench,” Shakespeare wrote in Richard III.) It was over a century before bonnet meant a headdress exclu- sively for women.
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