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  Bonnet may refer to:

Headgear
  • Bonnet (headgear)
    Bonnet (headgear)

    Bonnet, derived from the same word in Old French, where it originally indicated a type of material, has been and is used for various kinds of headgear for both sexes, which have in common only the absence of a brim....
  • Feather bonnet
    Feather bonnet

    The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highlands infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I....
    , worn by Scottish regiments
  • Glengarry
    Glengarry

    Glengarry is a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material with a toorie or bobble on top and ribbons hanging down behind....
    , type of cap also called a Glengarry bonnet
  • Tam o'shanter (hat)
    Tam o'shanter (hat)

    A tam o'shanter is a Scotland Bonnet worn by men which was named after the character Tam o' Shanter in the poem of that name by Robert Burns....
    , distinctive Scottish bonnet
  • War bonnet
    War bonnet

    Feathered war bonnets were a military decoration developed by the Plains Indians. The eagle was considered by the Indian as the greatest and most powerful of all birds and thus, the finest bonnets were made out of its feathers....
    , feathered headgear worn as military decoration by Plains Indians
  • Tudor bonnet
    Tudor bonnet

    A Tudor bonnet is a soft round black academic cap, with a tassel hanging from a cord encircling the puggaree of the hat. It is mostly worn as part of academic dress by a person who holds a doctorate degree, mainly by those holding a research or professional doctorate degree....
    , worn during Tudor times but has now become an academic doctoral cap at universities in the UK


People
  • Charles Bonnet
    Charles Bonnet

    Charles Bonnet , Switzerland natural history and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a France family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century....
     (1720-1793), Swiss naturalist
  • Georges Bonnet
    Georges Bonnet

    Georges-?tienne Bonnet was a French politician and leading figure in the Radical-Socialist Party....
     (1889-1973), French politician
  • Graham Bonnet
    Graham Bonnet

    Graham Bonnet is a rock and roll vocalist and songwriter. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and with several bands including Rainbow , Michael Schenker Group, Impellitteri and Alcatrazz....
     (born 1947), British singer
  • Joseph Bonnet
    Joseph Bonnet

    Joseph Bonnet was a French composer and organist.One of the major France pipe organ players, Joseph Bonnet was born in Bordeaux. He first studied with his father, an organist at St....
     (1884-1944), French organist and composer
  • Pierre Ossian Bonnet
    Pierre Ossian Bonnet

    Pierre Ossian Bonnet France mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem....
     (1819-1892), French mathematician
  • Stede Bonnet
    Stede Bonnet

    Stede Bonnet was an early 18th-century Barbados piracy, sometimes called "the gentleman pirate" because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime....
     (c.1688-1718), pirate


Places
  • Bonnet, Meuse
    Bonnet, Meuse

    Bonnet is a Communes of France in the Meuse Departments of France in Lorraine in northeastern France....
    , commune in France
  • Bonnet Island
    Bonnet Island

    Bonnet Island is a low island with an area of 2.21 hectare in south-eastern Australia. It lies at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour in western Tasmania....
    , Tasmania, Australia


Other
  • Automobiles René Bonnet
    Automobiles René Bonnet

    Automobiles Ren? Bonnet was a France automobile maker.The firm was the continuation of DB by Ren? Bonnet when Charles Deutsch, the "D" in DB, founded his own firm CD....
    , defunct French automobile manufacturer
  • Bonnet, engineering term for part of a valve
    Valve

    A valve is a device that regulates the flow of a fluid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically pipe Piping and plumbing fittings, but are usually discussed as a separate category....
  • Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an irrigation sprinkler
    Irrigation sprinkler

    Irrigation sprinklers are used on farms, golf courses, residential yards, and other places to water agriculture, lawns, gardens or other plants in the event of drought....
  • Car bonnet
    Hood (vehicle)

    The hood or bonnet is the hinged lid over the engine of motor vehicles that allows access to the engine compartment for maintenance and auto mechanic....
    , hinged engine cover of a motor vehicle
  • Scotch bonnet, a variety of chilli pepper
  • Bonnet Macaque
    Bonnet Macaque

    The Bonnet Macaque is a macaque endemic to southern India. Its distribution is limited by Indian Ocean on three sides and Godavari and Tapti River along with a related competing species of Rhesus Macaque in the north....
     an Indian Monkey