angelot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French angelot, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin angelotus.

Noun

angelot (plural angelots)

1. (obsolete) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
2. (obsolete) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
   • Robert Browning

     For elegance, he strung the angelot,
     Made rhymes thereto […]

3. (obsolete) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “angelot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Gleaton, tangelo

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French

Etymology

angelus +‎ -ot

Pronunciation

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Noun

angelot m (plural angelots)

1. small angel

References

• “angelot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

• “angelot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.