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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONNET (from See also:

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

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