burgonet
/ˈbəːɡənɛt
/noun historical
1A kind of visored helmet.From cabassets to burgonets to gladiator helmets, you are sure to find great selection of medieval helmets....
- The close burgonet has a high comb, a peak, a barred, spiked visor and three gorget plates.
- This can be easily increased or decreased by raising or lowering the burgonet brim and the upper buffe plate.
1.1A light steel cap worn by pikemen.Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions....
- The archetype of the burgonet is perhaps the casque worn by the Swiss infantry (fig. 9 a) at the epoch of Marignan (1515).
- 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.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French bourguignotte, perhaps a use of the feminine of bourgignot 'Burgundian', the ending being assimilated to -et1.
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