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Bonet, Bonat, n. Also: bonett, -ete, bonnet(t, -it; bonat (-ath), bonnat; bannate, -et, -ot(t. [ME. bonet (14th c.), bonette, e.m.E. bonnet, OF. bonet, bonnet, of uncertain origin.]

1. A bonnet or cap.(a) 1375 Barb. ix. 506 (E).
Tharfor he gert ay ber about Apon a sper a red bonet 1458 Peebles B. Rec. 130.
A gra gon and a red bonet, the qwilk scho coft at John Smayl 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 37.
[Half] elne … of sating for the Qwenis bonet of tyre c1475 Wall. iii. 88.
He war A steylle capleyne in his bonet 1495 Treas. Acc. I. 257.
vj bonettis to the King, price of the bonete xviij s. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 180.
He is als brankand with bonet on syde 1520 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 200.
Ony bonettis … of quhite or vthir colouris of wob yarne 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. lvi.
Thay had thair hedis ay cowit, … but ony bonet or cover 1538 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 91.
To ilk ane of the said officeris ane marabas bonet with ane quhyte fedder 1549 Compl. 145/11.
To drynk vattir in ther bonet, or in the palmis of ther handis 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 151.
He sal be montit on ane mule, with ane syde gown and ane round bonett a 1567 Misc. Bann. C. II. 92.
Thair salbe twa bonettis proponit to be gevin solemnly to the twa that makis best composition a1585 Maitl. Q. lxx. 89.
Thair lytill bonet or braid hat, Sumtyme heiche and sumtyme plat 1596 Dalr. II. 150/25.
To Scotland legatis fra the Pope ar sent with hallowit sword and bonet to the king 1612 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 326.
Blakhous William … said … that he wald nocht tak af his bonet to the bailie(b) 1457 Peebles B. Rec. 119.
A hud and a bonat scarlat, a sillar belt 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 20.
To the King, on Pasche evin, a bonat Ib. 32.
Rede crammacy … to covir hir bonatis of tyre 1488 Ib. 157.
A scarlat bonat and a blak bonat 1491 Acta Conc. 220/1.
Twa bonatis … deliuerit to twa seruitouris of the said ladiis at hir command c1515 Asl. MS. I. 199/13.
The gud man of the hous held ay his bonat of, salang as the Dene was in with him 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. 209.
Ane pair of hois, hat, and bonat 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane bonat with ane targat of gold 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3416.
Our round bonats, we mak them, now, four-nuickit 1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix. 349.
In frost and snaw, quhen all the folkis ar fane, With double bonattis for to hap thair branefig. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1053.
Ȝone reid bonat scho raucht him with hir heill(c) 1535 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 492.
That na bonnet cum one his heid the tyme of his pennence except his nycht bonnet c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 273.
He … on his bonnet vsit to beir Of siluer fyne takinnis of weir a1578 Pitsc. i. 325/3.
The king callit on ane ȝemen of the stabill and desyrit ane of his abullȝementis, hose, cloke, cott and bonnett 1590 Treas. Acc. MS. 198.
Reid cramosie sating to the bonnet of hir maiesties croun 1602 Colville Parænese 116.
Thai forget that round bonnetts, syid gounes and larg breikks … ver not in vse in th' Apostles dayis 1612 Bk. Rates 336.
Bonnetts maid in Leith wynd and other places of this kingdome 1638 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 565.
Ane loik [of malt] vpoun the bak of ane bonnet, callit ane pickle 1700 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 124.
For bonnits to the men(d) 1490 Acta Conc. 157/2.
A double bannate, price vj s. viii d. c1515 Asl. MS. I. 224/12.
All vther graith that thai had that was oucht worth, viz. gownis, clokis, hudis, bannettis 1530 Lindores Chart. 32.
Fyif bannotts with twa bannot presis 1540 Maxwell Mem. 410.
Thre side nekkit preistis bannettis 1641 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 264.
Taking from him his bannet and joyp 1662 Lamont Diary 188.
He tooke a stone in his bannet, and brake all his feace

b. Freq. blew bonet. a1568 Pedder C. 28.
With bair blew bonattis and hobbold schone 1606 Edinb. Test. XLII. 117 b.
In the merchand buytht sex dosone of blew bonnettis c 1620 Sutherland Corr. 359.
Purge your countrey peice and peice from that vnciwill kynd of cloithes, such as plaids, mantels, truses, and blew bonnets 1632 Peebles B. Rec. 372.
Anent the absentis frome counsell not cuming thairto in dew tyme … and cuming thairto with blew bonnettis without hattis 1662 Soc. Ant. XXII. 221.
Ye … declared that Sathan was in likeness of a man with grey cloathes and ane blue bannet c 1680 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 402/2.
Provyd me treues … and a good bleu bonet 1727 Stirling B. Rec. II. 200.
A blew bannet with a cock of ribbons on it

c. A form of head-piece or helmet. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 37.
In iakkis, and stryppis and bonettis of steill 1563–4 Prot. Bk. T. Johnsoun 138.
Ane schell of ane bonet of stele 1615 Haddington Mem. II. 292.
Ane steill bonet … and ane secreit doublet 1624 Peebles B. Rec. 364.
Ane steill bonnet and ane pair of pletsleuis

2. An additional piece laced to a sail. 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 254.
For the tursing of ane grete sale, iij bonettis gevin be the Abbot of Cambuskynneth, [etc.] 1496 Ib. 300.
For making of a bonat and the lek to it with smal takil and a tee 1513 Doug. v. xiv. 4.
Heys heich the cros, he bad, … And fessyn bonnettis beneith the mayn sail down 1549 Compl. 41/4.
Than the master cryit, and bald renȝe ane bonet 1613 Soc. Ant. X. 222.
The haill furnishing to the bark … For sex eln of hardin to mend the main bonet 1614 Ib. 224.
For xxv dussoun of canues to be cors and bonet of ane main saill and cors and bonnet of a foir saill