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Encyclopedia Britannica



BONNET

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 212 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BONNET (from Lat. bonetum, a kind of stuff, then the cap
made of this stuff), originally a soft cap or covering for the head,
the common
term
  in
English
  till the end of the 17th
century
 ; this sense survives in
Scotland
 , especially as applied to the cap known as a " glengarry." The " bonnet " of a ship's sail now means an additional piece laced on to the bottom, but it seems to have formerly meant a piece laced to the top, the
term
  " to vail the bonnet " being found at the beginning of the 16th
century
  to mean "strike sail" (from the Fr. avaler), to let down. In
modern
  times " bonnet " has come to be used of a type of head-covering for women, differentiated from " hat " by fitting closely to the head and often having no brim, but varying considerably in shape according to the period and fashion. The term, by a natural extension,, is also applied to certain protective devices, as in a steam-
engine
  or safety-lamp, or in
slang
  use to a gambler's
accomplice
 , a decoy.


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