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Either of two 16th century helmets.

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  • 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.
  • His ancient burgonet the boar; &c. “Cambridge Portfolio,” vol. i., pp. 233, 234.
  • One head wearing a blue-glass burgonet with draggled golden plumes was impaled on the pike of its own standard.
  • 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...
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