the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. See burgonet.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A helmet worn in the sixteenth century, in two forms: one without a vizor, formed like the morion, and frequently furnished with cheek-pieces and a movable nose-guard; the other with a vizor, and similar to the armet.
Word Usage
"At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs of death that made naught of steel burganet or mail haburgeon."