verb
definition
(clothing) To put on, to dress in.
example
To don one's clothes.
Examples of donned in a Sentence
She donned her bathing suit and headed for the pool.
The two donned their coats and joined the climbers outside.
She donned a long nightgown and dropped into bed.
The count donned his dressing gown and went out to look.
Carmen showered and donned a simple sheath dress and didn't ask Alex what they should wear.
After a breakfast of dry cereal, she donned the work gloves she had brought and retrieved the weed whip from the shed.
Claire Quincy had donned reading glasses and was scrutinizing the letters as Fred O'Connor followed his notes and explained the information on Annie Quincy he had gathered at the library.
When he donned the wolf's head, she slapped her hands to the sides of her face in mock horror.
Finally, he donned his jacket and escaped up the street to a luncheonette where he ordered pie and ice cream.
Next morning Alpatych donned a jacket he wore only in town and went out on business.
Speck tossed him his shirt, which he donned as he listened.
Fred was dressed for the occasion—dapper suit, bow tie, and vest—while the Deans donned the grubbiest attire they could find.
My monthly condition excuses me from duties today so I donned my finest dress and strolled the streets of Ouray like the lady that was once Annie Quincy.
He stripped of his clothes, donned his pajama bottoms, and sat on the edge of the bed.
He hung up the phone and stormed out to the hall and donned his winter coat.
Jackson rolled his eyes as Sarah grabbed a pad of paper and donned her director's face.
But on the night of the 20th-21st of March, having donned the garments of a layman, with a cross-bow slung at his side, he succeeded in making his escape from Constance, accompanied only by a single servant, and took refuge first in the castle of Schaffhausen, then in that of Laufenburg, then at Freiburg-im-Breisgau, and finally at Brisach, whence he hoped to reach Alsace, and doubtless ultimately Avignon, under the protection of an escort sent by the duke of Burgundy.
The latter were snapped up after Paul donned them and launched into an impromptu spirited rendition of an Elvis number.
The morning after little Nicholas had left, the old prince donned his full uniform and prepared to visit the commander-in-chief.
Then he took off his nightcap, combed his hair over his temples, and donned his cap.
Dean donned coat and boots and joined the lawman.
He donned biking clothes, packed a jacket and sweater in his pannier and set off in pursuit of a few peaceful moments in one of his favorite worlds.
Elisabeth donned a guilty smile.
According to its sex, or the season of the year, it is known as the red, grey or brown linnet, and by the earlier English writers on birds, as well as in many localities at the present time, these names have been held to distinguish at least two species; but there is now no question among ornithologists on this point, though the conditions under which the bright crimson-red colouring of the breast and crown of the cock's spring and summer plumage is donned and doffed may still be open to discussion.
He was asked to edit the Univers, and to take a chair in the university of Louvain, but he declined both appointments, and in 1838 set out for Rome, revolving a great scheme for christianizing France by restoring the old order of St Dominic. At Rome he donned the habit of the preaching friar and joined the monastery 'of Minerva.
Upon waking, Darby donned the new apparel without remark or even apparent notice.
Sons and husbands donned aprons and waited on mothers and wives at the supper table.
He donned the hotel bathrobe and moved toward the door.
As the Ottoman Turks lost ground to the West, they increasingly donned the cloak of the Caliphate.
At Innsbruck the Bavarians had already donned the red cockade, and on the Brenner rebellion had broken out.
As already advertised, from 17th June until September the fabulous green feathers will be donned by Olivier award winning comedian MARK LITTLE.
In a flash of inspiration, we donned crampons.
Having quickly donned our snorkeling gear we plunged off the boat into the deep blue.
Male branch staff even donned pink tutus for breast cancer awareness month!
Spirits were high as we all donned our pink t-shirts and decorated the bus with banners and balloons.
The majority of men donned black ties, and many women also wore some emblem of mourning.
The 29 residents and visitors donned union flag hats and enjoyed a party at the housing scheme in Barley Croft.
Becks, who quit as England captain after their World Cup failure earlier this month, donned a silk shirt and black trousers.
It begins to manifest when The Pupil grows tired in her newly donned pointe shoes.
The French officers have donned inline skates to patrol the streets where many of the youths are skating.
Cox's portrayal was so successful he donned a tuxedo and won awards.
Leaving his civilian employment with the Heating Equipment Manufacturing Company in Stuttgart, he donned the field gray uniform of the German Army.
Our 90-strong team donned burgundy vests and ran, jogged or walked the world famous route from Newcastle to South Shields.
As each incumbent died, his successor donned the infected vestments of his predecessor and was soon a victim himself.
Two brave volunteers donned waders and walked the whole perimeter of the pond and dragged out all the debris from the pond.
Colin Degrease, 32, donned the pristine Y-fronts at the insistence of his long-suffering wife Donna.
But Aldridge soon donned wigs and white make-up and moved on to non-black parts such as Macbeth, Shylock and King Lear.
As a sign of grief, or on any occasion when the individual felt himself brought into closer contact with his deity, the garments were rent (subsequently a conventional slit at the breast sufficed) and he donned the sak, a loin-cloth or wrapper which appears to be a survival of older and more primitive dress.
Cox 's portrayal was so successful he donned a tuxedo and won awards.
These calming cascades donned classical motifs such as lions, cherubs, and mythological images.