Word.ws English Dictionary

ailette

/eɪˈlɛt/

ailette noun: a small square piece of armour, normally made of boiled leather, worn on the shoulders of knights.

ailette: a small square piece of armour, normally made of boiled leather, worn on the shoulders of knights
Image: Mariana ruiz LadyofHats, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

ailette (plural ailettes)

  1. (historical) A small square piece of armour, normally made of boiled leather, worn on the shoulders of knights.
    • […]at the back of the shoulder is fixed an ailette1858, “Arms, Armour, and Military Usages of the Fourteenth Century”, in The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 205

ailette meaning in Bengali

ailette in Bengali

ছোট বর্গাকার বর্ম

Forms of ailette

pluralailettes

Origin of ailette

Borrowed from French ailette, diminutive of aile (“wing”).

Questions about ailette

What does ailette mean?
Ailette means a small square piece of armour, normally made of boiled leather, worn on the shoulders of knights.
What is ailette in Bengali?
Ailette in Bengali is ছোট বর্গাকার বর্ম. See Ailette meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is ailette?
Ailette is a noun.
How do you pronounce ailette?
Ailette is pronounced /eɪˈlɛt/.
What is the plural of ailette?
The plural of ailette is ailettes.

Words near ailette in the dictionary

  1. Ailes
  2. Ailesbury
  3. Aileses
  4. ailest
  5. aileth
  6. ailette
  7. ailettes
  8. ailevator
  9. ailevators
  10. Ailie
  11. ailihphilia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ailette (page history and authors); ailette (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ailette.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ailette. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.