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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

His ancient burgonet the boar; &c. “Cambridge Portfolio,” vol. i., pp. 233, 234.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

One head wearing a blue-glass burgonet with draggled golden plumes was impaled on the pike of its own standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

1852 D. MOIR Tomb de Bruce v, In the hall hung the target and burgonet rusting.fig. 1606 SHAKES.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Trade, I see, teaches ye all so to cheat and overreach, that ye suppose a knight's burgonet is as full of tricks and traps as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

We have news from the North that bids us brace on the burgonet and buckle-to the brand, -- a revolt that requires a king's arm to quell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm And burgonet of men. "—.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ...] Reference

"I need not inquire to what country you belong, for I see by the arms of England engraven on your burgonet whence you come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Champions of Christendom] Reference

"What brings ye hither, whom I left so lately deep engaged in the loom, upon the helmet of Goliath, with my burgonet before you as a sample?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

I will give the signal for the onset, which will lay thousands of our foemen low; and see, for my ensign, I do wear upon my burgonet this leek, which will, if we gain the victory, be ever after held in honour throughout Wales, and on this first day of March be worn by all Welshmen in commemoration of our victory. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Champions of Christendom] Reference

And burgonet of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference

My mercy on his coward burgonet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward the Third] Reference

My mercie on his coward burgonet.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Edward the Third] Reference

Of warlike Gaunt the lofty burgonet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of King Henry VI] Reference

And that I’ll write upon thy burgonet, 208.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

This day I’ll wear aloft my burgonet, —212.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

And from thy burgonet I’ll rend thy bear, 216.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act V. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

296 A massy burgonet. .helming his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

And from thy burgonet I’ll rend thy bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

From cliff to cliff, wide and far, blazed rejoicing bonfires; and from cliff to cliff, wide and far, burst the shout, when, first of all his men, bareheaded, but, save the burgonet, in complete mail, the popular hero leaped to shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

Not a word, however, from either did Marmaduke abstract in return for his courtesies, nor did either he or the earl seem to expect it; for the latter, seating himself and drawing Anne on his knee, while Isabella walked with stately grace towards the table that bore her father's warlike accoutrements, and played, as it were, unconsciously with the black plume on his black burgonet, said to Nevile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference