bonete
bonete
∗bonete
masculine noun
1biretta (eclesiástico); mortarboard (universitario)
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bonete [bo-nay’-tay]
noun
1Bonnet or cap used by clergymen, collegians, and doctors or professors of the universities. (m)
2Secular clergyman who wears a bonnet, in contradistinction to a monk who wears a hood or cowl. (m)
3Bonnet, a kind of outworks of a fortress. (m)
- Tirarse los bonetes, to pull caps. Bravo or gran bonete -> great dunce
4Widemouthed vial for conserves. (Obsolete) (m)
5Second stomach, reticulum, of ruminants. (m)
6Not on your life! (Ante Meridian & Central America) (m)
- A tente bonete -> insistently
, no way.
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