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Definition of Quillet
1. n. Subtilty; nicety; quibble.
Definition of Quillet
1. Noun. A quibble, an evasive distinction. ¹
2. Noun. (context: now regional) A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quillet
1. a trivial distinction [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quillet
Literary usage of Quillet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain). (1908)
"quillet, Leon. Constitution des alliages cuivre-aluminium. Paris, C.-R. Acad.
sei., 141. 1905, (464-467). [0120 0290]. 29250 au nickel, aciers au manganèse, ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"2 vols. With portrait of the author by J. Stur bishop of Ely, 1298, 1/.
This work .Heeled and composed out of original ms. cts of synods. quillet ..."
3. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1882)
"... of France Several poets of real merit belong to this —quillet- period.
The first in time was Claude quillet, who, ..."
4. A New and General Biographical Dictionary;: Containing an Historical and (1762)
"... quillet; who, perceiving the mummery to be carried on by cardinal ... upon him
a few months after : and this had fo good an effect upon quillet, ..."
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