▪ I. † ˈburlet Obs.
Also 6 byrlet, 7 bourlet, 7–8 birlet.
[a. Fr. bourlet or bourrelet.]
A padded roll of cloth for a woman's head; a coif or hood; also, a similar roll serving as a support for a ruff.
| 1490 Coventry Acc. in T. Sharp Dissert. Pageants (1825) 17 note, Item twoo Burlettis. 1552 Huloet, Byrlet or tyrynge for women, calantica callotte en champ[agne]. 1578 in Collect. Inventories (1815) 219 A lang taillit gowne of layn..with burlettis. 1611 Cotgr., Le grand papillon, a high Bourlet or Hood. 1678 Phillips, Birlet, (old word) a Coife, or Hood. [Whence in Bailey.] |
▪ II. burlet
see burlace.