A Bonnet is a variety of headgear, hat or cap Specific types of headgear referred to as "bonnets" may include

Scottish

Blue bonnet The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred years was the customary working wear of Scottish labourers and farmers. Although a particularly broad and flat form was associated with the Scottish Lowlands, where it was so ...

, a distinctive woollen cap worn by men in Scotland from the 15th-18th centuries
And its derivations: **

Feather bonnet The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highland infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I. It is now mostly worn by pipers and drummers in various bands throu ...

, worn by Scottish regiments **

Glengarry The Glengarry bonnet is a traditional Scots cap made of thick-milled woollen material, decorated with a toorie on top, frequently a rosette cockade on the left side, and ribbons hanging behind. It is normally worn as part of Scottish military ...

, type of Scottish cap also called a Glengarry bonnet ** Tam o' Shanter (cap) *** its military variant the

Balmoral bonnet The Balmoral (more fully the Balmoral bonnet in Scottish English or Balmoral cap otherwise, and formerly called the Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottish hat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from t ...

* See also: Bluebonnet (disambiguation)

Native American

* War bonnet, feathered headgear worn as an earned military decoration by high-ranking Plains Indians

U.K.

Tudor bonnet A Tudor bonnet (also referred to as a doctor's bonnet or round cap) is a traditional soft-crowned, round-brimmed cap, with a tassel hanging from a cord encircling the hat. As the name suggests, the Tudor bonnet was popularly worn in England and ...

, worn during Tudor times, but has now become an academic doctoral cap at universities in the U.K. Bonnet may also refer to

Places

* Bonnet, Meuse, commune in France * Bonnet Island, Tasmania, Australia

Transport

Bonnet (wagon) The covered wagon or prairie wagon, historically also referred to as an ambulance or prairie schooner, was a vehicle usually made out of wood and canvas that was used for transportation, prominently in 19th-century America. With roots in the ...

, a word for the canvas cover on covered wagons. *

Automobiles René Bonnet Automobiles René Bonnet was a French automobile maker. The firm was the continuation of Deutsch et Bonnet (DB) by René Bonnet when Charles Deutsch, the "D" in DB, founded his own firm CD. The business was based at Champigny-sur-Marne to the ...

, defunct French automobile manufacturer *

Bonnet (car) The hood (American English) or bonnet (Commonwealth English) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. Hoods can open to allow access to the engine compartment, or trunk (boot in Commonwealth English) on rear-engine and some mi ...

, a word for the hinged engine cover of a motor vehicle in Britain and Commonwealth countries, also known as a "hood" in U.S. and Canadian English

Sail

* Piece of canvas laced to the bottom of a sail to make it bigger

Other uses

Bonnet (surname) Bonnet is a French surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 83.0% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bonnet'' were residents of France (frequency 1:975), 3.4% of the United States (1:129,853), 2.0% of Haiti (1:6,444), 1.5% of Germany (1:6 ...

*Bonnet, engineering term for part of a

valve A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically fittings ...

*Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an irrigation sprinkler * Scotch bonnet, a variety of chilli pepper * Bonnet macaque, an Indian monkey *Bonnet, a minor antagonist from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location * "Bonnet", a song by DaBaby featuring Pooh Shiesty (2022) {{disambiguation, geo