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See also:BURGONET, or BURGANET (from Fr. bourguignote, Burgundian See also:helmet) , a See also:form of See also:light See also:helmet or See also:head-piece, which was in See also:vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries . In its normal form the See also:burgonet was a large roomy cap with a brim shading the eyes, cheek-pieces or flaps, a See also:comb, and a guard for the back of the See also:neck . In many cases a vizor, or other See also:face See also:protection, and a See also:chin-piece are found in addition, so that this piece of See also:armour is sometimes mistaken for an See also:armet (q.v.), but it can always be distinguished by the projecting brim in front . The See also:morion and cabasset have no face, cheek or neck protection . The typical head-piece of the 17th-See also:century soldier in See also:England and elsewhere is a burgonet See also:skull-cap with a straight brim, neck-guard and often, in addition, a fixed vizor of three thin See also:iron bars which are screwed into, and hang down from, the brim in front of the eyes . |
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