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 Kingdom

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

Scottish

• Blue bonnet, a distinctive woollen cap worn by men in Scotland from the 15th to 18th centuries, and its derivations:
  • Feather bonnet, worn by Scottish regiments
  • Glengarry, type of Scottish cap also called a Glengarry bonnet
  • Tam o' Shanter (cap)
    • its military variant the Balmoral bonnet
• See also: Bluebonnet (disambiguation)

Bonnet may also refer to

Literature

• The Daily Bonnet, Mennonite satire website, now known as The Unger Review
• The Best of the Bonnet, a collection of satirical articles by Andrew Unger
• Bonnet ripper, Amish romance novels

Places

• Bonnet, a village in Lemvig Municipality, Denmark
• Bonnet, Meuse, commune in France
• Bonnet Island, Tasmania, Australia

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

• Bonnet (surname)
• Bonnet, engineering term for part of a valve
• Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an irrigation sprinkler
• Scotch bonnet, a variety of chili pepper
• Bonnet macaque, an Indian monkey
• Bonnet, a minor antagonist from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location