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Definition of Bongrace
1. n. A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
Definition of Bongrace
1. Noun. (obsolete) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A wide-brimmed hat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bongrace
1. a sunshade worn over a hat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bongrace
Literary usage of Bongrace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"Very rarely in the earliest inventories appears the word " bongrace." It was the
frontlet of a coif or hood ; and its first function was plainly to preserve ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"bongrace. What, you saucy malapert knave, Begin you with your master to prate
and rave ... bongrace. Nay I know toys and pranks of old, And now thou art not ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (1885)
"bongrace. A frontlet attached to the hood, and standing up round the forehead,
... Here is of our lady a relic full good, Her bongrace which she ware, ..."
4. English Miracle Plays and Moralities by E. Hamilton Moore (1907)
"Meantime, Master bongrace returns to inquire after his wife, and, ... Why, thou
naughty villain, says bongrace, dost affirm me that which is impossible? ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley, Richard Morris (1874)
"bongrace. What, you saucy malapert knave, Begin you with your master to prate
and rave ? ... bongrace. Why, canst thou find no man to mock but me ? ..."
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