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Bonnet is a variety of headgear, hat or cap
Specific types of headgear referred to as "bonnets" may include
Scottish
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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:
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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
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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
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Tam o' Shanter (cap)
*** its military variant the
Balmoral bonnet
* See also:
Bluebonnet (disambiguation)
Native American
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War bonnet, feathered headgear worn as an earned military decoration by high-ranking Plains Indians
U.K.
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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
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Bonnet, Meuse, commune in France
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Bonnet Island, Tasmania, Australia
Transport
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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.
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Automobiles René Bonnet, defunct French automobile manufacturer
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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
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Bonnet (surname)
*Bonnet, engineering term for part of a
valve
*Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an
irrigation sprinkler
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Scotch bonnet, a variety of chilli pepper
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Bonnet macaque, an Indian monkey
*Bonnet, a minor antagonist from
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
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"Bonnet", a song by
DaBaby featuring
Pooh Shiesty (2022)
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