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lunets

lunets is the plural of lunet.

Meaning of lunet

Noun

lunet (plural lunets)

  1. (obsolete) A little moon or satellite.
    • […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker

Questions about lunets

What is lunets the plural of?
Lunets is the plural of lunet.

Words near lunets in the dictionary

  1. Lunenburg puddings
  2. lunes
  3. lunes of Hippocrates
  4. lunet
  5. Luneta
  6. lunets
  7. Lunetta
  8. Lunettas
  9. lunette
  10. lunetted
  11. lunettes

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