Be-bonneted

Then comes a phalanx of very fat, elderly ladies, be-bonneted, be-tippeted, be-furbeiowed, dreadful to follow and hopeless to pass.

He has also repeatedly heard from a gentleman who was curate in a populous parish of London, that the practice of his fellow-curates was to range around the font the thirty or forty women who used every Sunday to bring children to be baptised, and then with one form of words to sprinkle the water round, without knowing or caring whether it touched the be-bonneted and be-capped children at all, or whether he only washed the nurses and godmothers.

In a many-coloured crowd, stocked and cravated with all the bravery of buff and plum-colour and blue, the bucks of the town passed and repassed with their high-waisted, straight-skirted, be-bonneted ladies upon their arms.

A be-bonneted Betty Prough (hers from Florence) and Leta Higgins chatting with a sytlish^([sic]) Rose Marie Walsh, Sheila Zwischenberger, Gigi Schmidt, Peggy Rapp, Anne Charpentier, Kay Potts and Kim Raschke.