Definition of "sunbonneted"

While he is at the front end selling calico to some wearisome old lady, sunbonneted and chaffering, a mischievous boy is very apt to be pocketing lumps of sugar for profit, or starting the faucet of a molasses barrel for fun at the other.

1866, “Mr. Dod's Six Shots”, in Harper's Magazine‎, volume 32, page 208

Standing expectantly on this porch were two fashionably dressed little tots of girls — cut very much on the same pattern, like paper dolls — and a sunbonneted, gingham-clad young woman whose rounded arm lightly held a heavy but spick and span baby, a regular prize winner for plumpness and fairness, a baby of such well-poised deportment that every noddle was kingly.

1913, Marion Hill, The Lure of Crooning Water‎, page 45

And there was about her, small and ginghamed and sunbonneted as she was, a certain reserve and dignity and fineness that they resented.

1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon

Among them was the “Madonna of the Prairie”—an angelic, idealistic, sunbonneted Euro-American woman, who went west with her family and aided in the Turnerian process of subduing the wilderness.

2010, Gordon Morris Bakken, The World of the American West‎