Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailettes
Literary usage of Ailettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"The monarch has hauberk and chausses of banded-mail, with ailettes at the shoulders.
The helm is of the " sugar-loaf" form, more clearly shewn ..."
2. Monumental Brasses and Slabs: An Historical and Descriptive Notice of the by Charles Boutell (1847)
"The first mention of ailettes which has been noticed in any document occurs in
the roll of a tournament held at Windsor, AD 1278; from this curious memorial ..."
3. The Brasses of England by Herbert Walter Macklin (1907)
"The knight wears banded instead of chain mail, and has no ailettes. ... Here we
see again the above-mentioned and curious ailettes, being ornamental wings ..."
4. French-English Dictionary, with Explanatory Notes, of Terms and Expressions by William Edward Bayles (1918)
"ailettes (réfrigérant à) — Radiator composed of a number of flanged tubes.
ailettes de refroidissement — Wings, gills or flanges, placed on the tubes of ..."
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