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BONNET.—With the exception of Isa_3:20, this is the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] designation of the special headdress of the rank and file of the priesthood according to the priestly writer (Exo_28:40; Exo_29:9 etc., RV [Note: Revised Version.] head-tire). It consisted of a long swathe of fine white linen wound round the head—note Exo_29:9 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘bind (or wind) head-tires’—to form an egg-shaped turban. Cf. Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant. III. vii. 3; and Rich, Dict. Rom. and Gr. Ant. s.v. ‘pileus’ for illust. of the egg-shaped cap of Ulysses, with which Jerome compares the priestly turban. See Dress, 5, Mitre.
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