bonnet 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 King ...

is a variety of headgear, hat or cap. Specific types of headgear referred to as "bonnets" may include

Native American

War bonnet file:Native American PowWow 9488.jpg, A modern-day Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, dog soldier wearing a feathered headdress during a pow wow at the Indian Summer festival in Henry Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2008 War bonnets (also called ...

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

United Kingdom

Tudor bonnet A Tudor bonnet (also referred to as a doctor's bonnet or round cap) is a traditional soft-crowned, round-brimmed cap, with a tassel hanging from a cord encircling the hat. As the name suggests, the Tudor Bonnet (headgear), bonnet was popularly w ...

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

Scottish

Blue bonnet The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred years was the customary working wear of Scottish labourers and farmers. Although a particularly broad and flat form was associated with the Scottish Lowlands, where it was so ...

, a distinctive woollen cap worn by men in Scotland from the 15th to 18th centuries, and its derivations: **

Feather bonnet The feather bonnet is a type of military headdress used mainly by the Scottish Highland infantry regiments of the British Army from about 1763 until the outbreak of World War I. It is now mostly worn by pipers and drummers in various bands thro ...

, worn by Scottish regiments **

Glengarry The Glengarry bonnet is a traditional Scots cap made of thick-milled woollen material, decorated with a toorie on top, frequently a rosette cockade on the left side, and ribbons hanging behind. It is normally worn as part of Scottish military ...

, type of Scottish cap also called a Glengarry bonnet **

Tam o' Shanter (cap) A tam o' shanter (in the British military often abbreviated to ToS) or "tammie" is a name given to the traditional Scottish bonnet worn by men. The name derives from Tam o' Shanter, the eponymous hero of the 1790 Robert Burns poem. Description ...

*** its military variant the

Balmoral bonnet The Balmoral bonnet (also known as a Balmoral cap or Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottish hat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet, dating to at least the 16th century, ...

* See also: Bluebonnet (disambiguation) Bonnet may also refer to

Literature

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The Daily Bonnet ''The Daily Bonnet'' is a satirical Mennonite website, known as ''The Unger Review'' as of 2023. It was created by Andrew Unger and launched in May 2016. It features news stories and editorials, with the structure of conventional newspapers, bu ...

'', Mennonite satire website, now known as ''The Unger Review'' *'' The Best of the Bonnet'', a collection of satirical articles by

Andrew Unger Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979) is a Canadian novelist and satirist. He is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review (formerly The Daily Bonnet), as well as the novel '' Once Removed'' and the collection ''The Best of the B ...

*Bonnet ripper,

Amish romance Amish romance is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women. An industry term for Amish romance novels is "bonnet rippers" because most feature a woman in a bonn ...

novels

Places

*Bonnet, a village in

Lemvig Municipality Lemvig Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 516.63 km2, and has a population of 18,800 (2025). Its may ...

, Denmark *

Bonnet, Meuse Bonnet () is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Population See also * Communes of the Meuse department The following is a list of the 499 Communes of France, communes of the Meuse (department), Meuse ...

, commune in France *

Bonnet Island Bonnet Island is a low island with an area of 2.21 ha. It lies at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour in Western Tasmania, Australia, in the vicinity of Hells Gates.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''T ...

, Tasmania, Australia

Transport

Bonnet (wagon) A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, or prairie schooner, is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden ...

, a word for the canvas cover on covered wagons *

Automobiles René Bonnet Automobiles René Bonnet was a French automobile maker. The firm was the continuation of DB (car), Deutsch et Bonnet (DB) by René Bonnet (businessman), René Bonnet when Charles Deutsch, the "D" in DB, founded his own firm CD. The business was b ...

, 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) The hood (American English) or bonnet (Commonwealth English) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. Hoods can open to allow access to the engine compartment, or trunk (boot in Commonwealth English) on rear-engine and some mi ...

in the United States

Other uses

Bonnet (surname) Bonnet is a French language, French surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 83.0% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bonnet'' were residents of France (frequency 1:975), 3.4% of the United States (1:129,853), 2.0% of Haiti (1:6,444), 1. ...

*Bonnet, engineering term for part of a

valve A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or Slurry, slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically Pip ...

*Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an

irrigation sprinkler An irrigation sprinkler (also known as a water sprinkler or simply a sprinkler) is a device used to irrigate (water) agricultural crops, lawns, landscapes, golf courses, and other areas. They are also used for cooling and for the control of airb ...

Scotch bonnet Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. It is native to the Americas—a cultivar of '' Capsicum chinense'', wh ...

, a variety of chili pepper *

Bonnet macaque The bonnet macaque (''Macaca radiata''), also known as zati,Chambers English Dictionary is a species of macaque endemism, endemic to southern India. Its distribution is limited by the Indian Ocean on three sides and the Godavari River, Godavari a ...

, an Indian monkey *Bonnet, a minor antagonist from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location {{disambiguation, geo