Obs. [a. OFr. burnete, brunette in same sense, dim. of brun, BROWN.]
A. adj. a. Of a dark brown color.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 163. Hire mentel grene oðer burnet.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 56. Burnet colowre, burnetum.
a. 1500. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 569. Burnetus, burnet, color quidam est.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 106. Sa mony diuers hew, Sum pers, sum paill, sum burnet, and sum blew.
b. absol.
a. 1450. Syr Peny, v. in Rel. Ant., II. 108. He may gar them trayle syde In burnet and in grene.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 194. The roabes … of Greene or Burnet.
B. sb. A wool-dyed cloth of superior quality, orig. of dark brown color.
1284. in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, II. 536/3.
c. 1325. Love song, in Rel. Ant., II. 19. Of a blak bornet al wos hir wede.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 4759. As well be amourettes In mourning blak, as bright burnettes.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Burnet, in middle age writers, denotes brown cloth made of dyed wool.
attrib. c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 226. A burnet cote henge therwithalle.
¶ See quot.
1616. Bullokar, Burnet, a hood, or attire for the head.
1623. in Cockeram.
1678. in Phillips.
