Definition of Ailette

1. n. A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.

Definition of Ailette

1. a plate of armour for the shoulder [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailette

aikona
ail
ailanthic
ailanthus
ailanthus silkworm
ailanthuses
ailanto
ailantos
ailantus
ailantuses
ailed
aileron
aileron authority
ailerons
aileth
ailette (current term)
ailettes
ailin'
ailing
ailings
aillt
aillts
ailment
ailments
ailourophil
ailourophile
ailourophiles
ailourophils
ails
ailur-

Literary usage of Ailette

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Would it be a mere local retirement beyond the ailette and the canal, ... 1, chose the former, withdrawing beyond the ailette and abandoning the western ..."

2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1919)
"They were forced to retire along a fifteen-mile front to the ailette River, the prelude, perhaps, to the fall of Laon and La Fere. ..."

3. Readings on the Inferno of Dante: Based Upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da by Dante Alighieri, William Warren Vernon, Edward Moore (1906)
"Perché tanta viltà nel core ailette ? | Perché ardire e franchezza non hai ? ... ailette : I am in great doubt which of two interpretations to give to this ..."

4. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"From the ramparts of Fort Malmaison the Germans could watch any French movements between the ailette and the Aisne Rivers, or on the spurs running down to ..."

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