angelot
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French angelot, Late Latin angelotus.
Noun
angelot (plural angelots)
- (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.
- (obsolete) An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
- Robert Browning
- For elegance, he strung the angelot,
Made rhymes thereto […]
- For elegance, he strung the angelot,
- Robert Browning
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
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References
- “angelot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “angelot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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