poke bonnet

The poke bonnet came into fashion at the beginning of the 19th century.

I donned my poke bonnet and peeked from the window.

The women in long cotton dresses and poke bonnets.

This, with her poke bonnet, gave her the look of a quaint little woman.

A gold badge and single red ribbon trimmed her matching poke bonnet.

It is called a poke bonnet because all of one's hair could be poked inside it.

She was very small, had a sort of nut-cracker face, a little black poke bonnet, and walked with a stick."

Don your poke bonnet and gather ye rosebuds in our basket.

She sets off along the road in poke bonnet and shawl to find a safe place away from the farm to lay her eggs.

It is referred to in a first world war music hall song "In your little poke bonnet and shawl".

"What you tink of my new poke bonnet, Frederick Augustus?

I was wearing a poke bonnet and a long full skirt trimmed with bows of ribbon and a shawl around my shoulders.

Her poke bonnet showed an edging of grime, and her gesso features needed a new enamelling.

Little Bo Peep in a long floral dress, matching poke bonnet and a shepherd's crook by her side.

Butter-blond curls peeped out from beneath a dashing poke bonnet, and the finest Indian muslin clung to an exquisite form.

Whatever curves her figure might possess were completely hidden beneath a shapeless black dress, and a plain poke bonnet concealed every vestige of her hair.

She put on her poke bonnet, threw a shawl over her shoulders, as if it were the merest domestic errand she were going upon.

Wherever she traveled, she wore a plain poke bonnet and a brown or black Quaker wrapper, and she carried her own carpetbag suitcase.

Addie took her revenge by returning to the Church of God Holy Rollers and wearing poke bonnets of her own manufacture.

Jeanne Tourmont entered the shop, her poke Bonnet tilted itself to rights, And her face looked out like the moon on nights Of flickering clouds.

A messenger - the term used to describe the attendants - was lounging in one of the big, black-leather armchairs which had a canopy over the top, like a poke bonnet.

A poke bonnet is a women's bonnet (hat) in the shape of a hood, featuring a projecting rim on the front side, which would shade the face of the wearer.

Jean Mitchell was dressed as Madeleine Smith, in crinoline and poke bonnet, and looked quite charming enough to deserve all the attentions that were being poured out on her.

(Here she had let her pen run away with itself and there was a picture of a pair of lambs and an old woman in a poke bonnet all frisking together.)

He glanced at her Little Nell attire, the white pantaloons peeping out from under layers of petticoats, the bright blue skirt, white shawl, and the becoming poke bonnet.