Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A light steel helmet with a peak or crest and often hinged flaps covering the cheeks, worn chiefly in the 16th century.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See burganet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of helmet.

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  • noun historical A light helmet worn by infantrymen.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Old French bourguignotte, probably from Bourgogne, Burgundy, a region of eastern France.]

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From Old French bourguignotte, from Bourgogne ("Burgundy").

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Examples

  • In its normal form the burgonet was a large roomy cap with a brim shading the eyes, cheek-pieces or flaps, a comb, and a guard for the back of the neck.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • The Baron resumed his favourite topic — ‘However it may please you to derogate from the honour of your burgonet, Colonel Talbot, which is doubtless your humour, as I have seen in other gentlemen of birth and honour in your country, I must again repeat it as a most ancient and distinguished bearing, as well as that of my young friend Francis Stanley, which is the eagle and child.’

    Waverley 2004

  • At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • One head wearing a blue-glass burgonet with draggled golden plumes was impaled on the pike of its own standard.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • His ancient burgonet the boar; &c. “Cambridge Portfolio,” vol. i., pp. 233, 234.

    Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

  • England and elsewhere is a burgonet skull-cap with a straight brim, neck-guard and often, in addition, a fixed vizor of three thin iron bars which are screwed into, and hang down from, the brim in front of the eyes.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Any advantage gained by one was foiled by the other, till at length Saint Andrew, uttering his battle-cry, struck so mighty a blow with his battle-axe, that he clave the Georgian's burgonet, and his head beneath, from his crown to his shoulders, and his body fell lifeless on the ground.

    The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • From far and near came valiant knights from all the neighbouring provinces, habited in every conceivable style of richest armour; yet none surpassed Saint David in the sumptuousness of his plume and burgonet, the trappings of his steed, the richness of his scarf, the splendour of his shield and breastplate, or of his whole armour, which, from his lofty helm to his knightly spurs, shone with resplendent beauty.

    The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Whether or not he might have succeeded is doubtful, when one night, as the Princess slept on her couch she dreamed that Saint George appeared, not, as she had seen him, in shining armour, with his burgonet of glittering steel, and crimson plume of spangled feathers, but in overworn and simple attire, with pale countenance and emaciated form; and thus he spoke: --

    The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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