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plural burgonets
(historical) A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor. quotations
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