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bon´et: In the King James Version the designation of the special headdress of the rank and file of the priesthood, the Revised Version (British and American) “head-tire†(). It consisted of a long swath of fine white linen wound around the head in oriental fashion. The Hebrew word found in the Revised Version (British and American), “to bind head-tires,†literally “to wind head-tires,†means, in the light of usage, “to form an egg-shaped turban.†Compare Josephus, Ant, III, vii, 3; and see Rich, Dict. Roman and Greek Ant, under the word pileus, for illustration of the egg-shaped cap of Ulysses, with which Jerome compared the priestly turban. See DRESS; MITRE, etc.