Obs. exc. Hist. Also 6 burguenet, (burgant), 6–7 burgenet, 6–9 burganet, 9 bourginot, -goinette. [ad. OF. bourguignotte, app. f. Bourgogne Burgundy.]
a. A very light casque, or steel cap, for the use of the infantry, especially pikemen. b. A helmet with a visor, so fitted to the gorget or neck-piece, that the head could be turned without exposing the neck.
[1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, Gloss. 249. Burgonet, a French word, is a certaine kind of head-peece, either for foote or horsemen, couering the head, and part of the face and cheeke.]
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1083/1. I was page to a footman, carying after him his pike and burganet.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 255. His burguenet beaten into his head.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 235. With Burgants to resist the stroke of a Battleaxe.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VIII. v. (1632), 407. On their heads they all wore guilt Burgenets.
1796. Southey, Joan, VII. 296. A massy burgonet … helming his head.
1825. Wiffen, Tasso, VII. xc. The glistening burganet that veils His brows.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 280. A morion and bourginot of the same period.
1852. D. Moir, Tomb de Bruce, v. In the hall hung the target and burgonet rusting.
fig. 1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. v. 24. [Antony] The demy Atlas of this Earth, the Arme And Burganet of men.
