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- bonnet (n.)[bonnet 词源字典]
- late 14c., Scottish bonat "brimless hat for men," from Old French bonet, short for chapel de bonet, from bonet (12c., Modern French bonnet) "kind of cloth used as a headdress," from Medieval Latin bonitum "material for hats," perhaps a shortening of Late Latin abonnis "a kind of cap" (7c.), which is perhaps from a Germanic source.
[bonnet etymology, bonnet origin, 英语词源]
- bonny (adj.)
- 1540s, of unknown origin, apparently from Old French bon, bone "good" (see bon).
- bonnyclabber (n.)
- 1620s (in shortened form clabber), from Modern Irish bainne "milk" (from Middle Irish banne "drop," also, rarely, "milk"; cognate with Sanskrit bindu- "drop") + claba "thick." Compare Irish and Gaelic clabar "mud," which sometimes has made its way into English (Yeats, etc.).
- Dubonnet (n.)
- sweet French aperitif, 1913, trademark name, from the name of a family of French wine merchants.
- Sorbonne
- 1560, from Sorbon, place name in the Ardennes. Theological college in Paris founded by Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274), chaplain and confessor of Louis IX. As an academic institution, most influential 16c.-17c., suppressed during the Revolution.
- bonne femme
- "(Of fish dishes, stews, and soups) cooked in a simple way", French, from the phrase à la bonne femme 'in the manner of a good housewife'.