Definitions for ailette

ailette ai·lette

Spelling: [ey-let]
IPA: /eɪˈlɛt/

Ailette is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in ailette (aeeiltt).

Definitions for ailette

noun

  1. either of two standing pieces of metal or cuir-bouilli, attached to the shoulders as an ornament or as a means of displaying the wearer's arms: used c1275–c1350.

Origin of ailette

Middle French, diminutive of aile wing. See aisle, -ette

Examples for ailette

Since then they had clung desperately to this ridge, which dominates the valley of the Aisne and the ailette Valley.

The Clehongre figure is especially curious as shewing the ailette fastened by its "laqueus," which appears on the outside.

The use of the ailette has somewhat perplexed antiquarian writers.

It is clear, from the Cross on the shield having the same position as the other, that the ailette is not a square one worn awry.

Assemblages of German troops north of ailette were dispersed with heavy losses by the concentrated fire from French batteries.

South of the ailette River the French fought their way forward foot by foot.

The enemy had already moved their artillery across the ailette to a ridge north of the river.

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