The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burgonet \Bur"go*net\, n. [F. bouruignotte, because the
Burgundians, F. Bouruignons, first used it.]
A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A light helmet worn by infantrymen.
Wikipedia
The burgonet helmet (sometimes called a burgundian sallet) was a Renaissance-era and early modern combat helmet. It was the successor of the sallet.
Usage examples of "burgonet".
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.
The typical head-piece of the 17th-century soldier in 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.
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.
Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.
Sir Conrade, deface our armorial bearings, and renounce our burgonets, if the highest honour of Christianity were conferred on an unchristened Turk of tenpence.
Sir Conrade, deface our armorial bearings, and renounce our burgonets, if the highest honour of Christianity were conferred on an unchristened Turk of tenpence.
In the crook of his left arm, as he took his place beside Walid Pasha on the quarterdeck, was his choice of helmets for todayan old-fashioned burgonet covered in bright-green samite and fined with a bar visor.