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chevronelle

chevronelle is the alternative form of chevronel.

Meaning of chevronel

Noun

chevronel (plural chevronels)

  1. A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
    • CHEVRONEL, a diminutive of chevron, and as ſuch only containing half a chevron.1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183

Forms of chevronelle

pluralchevronelles

Origin of chevronelle

From chevron + -elle.

Questions about chevronelle

What is chevronelle the alternative form of?
Chevronelle is the alternative form of chevronel.

Words near chevronelle in the dictionary

  1. chevron bone
  2. chevron bones
  3. chevron-wise
  4. chevroned
  5. chevronel
  6. chevronelle
  7. chevronelles
  8. chevronelly
  9. chevronels
  10. chevroning
  11. chevronly

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