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burginot

burginot is the rare spelling of burgonet.

Meaning of burgonet

Noun

burgonet (plural burgonets)

  1. (historical) A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor.
    • 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 […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of burginot

pluralburginots

Questions about burginot

What is burginot the rare spelling of?
Burginot is the rare spelling of burgonet.

Words near burginot in the dictionary

  1. burghs
  2. burghs of barony
  3. burghs of regality
  4. burghul
  5. Burgin
  6. burginot
  7. burginots
  8. Burgins
  9. Burgio
  10. Burgios
  11. burgir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burginot (page history and authors); burgonet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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