burginot
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Noun[edit]
burginot (plural burginots)
- Rare spelling of burgonet.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 291:
- His weak chin was covered with stubble; as he approached, he pulled a greasy cap away to show a head on which the hair had retreated at either side to leave a single wavering line like the crest of an old and dirty burginot.
- 2013, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 285:
- […] the precursor of the burginot or burgonet. (See p. 65.) One of the improvements on this early helmet was the adoption from the salade of the moveable lames at the nape of the neck, which enabled the head to be thrown back with ease.