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Bonnet

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A bonnet is a variety of headgear, hat or cap.

Specific types of headgear referred to as "bonnets" may include

Native American

  • War bonnet, feathered headgear worn as an earned military decoration by high-ranking Plains Indians

United Kingdom

  • Tudor bonnet, worn during Tudor times, but has now become an academic doctoral cap at universities in the UK

Scottish

Bonnet may also refer to

Literature

Places

Transport

  • Bonnet (wagon), a word for the canvas cover on covered wagons
  • Automobiles René Bonnet, defunct French automobile manufacturer
  • Bonnet, a word for the hinged engine cover of a motor vehicle in Britain and Commonwealth countries, known as a hood (car) in the United States

Other uses