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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]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailette

aikona ail ail ailanthic ailanthus ailanthuses Ailanthus altissima ailanthus silkworm ailanto ailantos

ailantus AILD ailed aileron ailerons ailette (current term) ailettes Ailey ailing ailment

ailment ailments ails ailuroidea ailurophile ailurophiles ailurophobe ailurophobes ailurophobia ailurophobia

Literary usage of Ailette

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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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