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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

bouruignotte

, because the Burgundians, F.

Bouruignons

, first used it.]

A kind of helmet.

[Written also

burganet

Shak.

Noun.

A kind of helmet, the Spanish murrion.

burgonet ‎(plural burgonets)

(historical) A light helmet worn by infantrymen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
  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 [...].