ailette
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French ailette, diminutive of aile (“wing”).
Noun[edit]
ailette (plural ailettes)
- A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, being the prototype of the epaulet.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
Translations[edit]
small square shield worn on the shoulders
Further reading[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ailette f (plural ailettes)
- small wing
Descendants[edit]
- English: ailette
Further reading[edit]
- “ailette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
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- French words suffixed with -ette
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
