guichet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
guichet (plural guichets)
- A small hatch or grill.
- 1860, Horace Marryat, A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, page 51:
- The door was walled up, his food passed through a guichet above, and a scanty allowance of light admitted through a small, barred window.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French, a diminutive of Old Norse vík (“bay”). Compare English wicket, ultimately from the same source through Old Northern French and/or Anglo-Norman.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
guichet m (plural guichets)
- (archaic) (small) door, gate (in wall, fort etc.); wicket
- hatch, grill (in cell etc.)
- ticket office, box office, ticket booth
- counter (at post office, bank etc.)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “guichet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
guichet oblique singular, m (oblique plural guichez or guichetz, nominative singular guichez or guichetz, nominative plural guichet)
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