burgonet

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US/ˈbɝ.ɡəˌnɛt/US/ˌbɝ.ɡəˈnɛt/UK/ˈbɜː.ɡəˌnɛt/UK/ˌbɜː.ɡəˈnɛt/

noun

A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor.

OriginOld French bourguignotte →
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Meanings

nounburgonet (plural burgonets)

plural burgonets

  1. historicalA light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor.

    He stroke so hugely with his borrowd blade, / That it empierst the Pagans burganet, / And cleauing the hard steele, did deepe inuade / Into his head […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchbourguignotte
  2. Englishburgonet

From Old French bourguignotte (modern bourguignote), from Bourgogne (“Burgundy”), perhaps influenced by Middle English burgon (“Burgundian”).

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Translations

French bourguignotte
  • bourguignottehelmet
Cite this entry
APA

burgonet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burgonet

MLA

“burgonet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burgonet. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “burgonet,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burgonet.

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