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volet

volet noun: a shutter on a window.

volet: a shutter on a window
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Noun

volet (plural volets)

  1. A shutter on a window.
  2. Either wing of a triptych.
    • Painted on panel, and possibly the central volet of a triptych, it showed an enthroned Madonna rescuing from Satan a young man whom she clutches by the wrist.2009, Mario Buhagiar, Essays on the Knights and Art and Architecture in Malta, 1500–1798, →ISBN, page 85

volet meaning in Tamil

volet in Tamil

மொட்டாக்கு

Forms of volet

pluralvolets

Origin of volet

Borrowed from French volet.

Questions about volet

What does volet mean?
Volet means a shutter on a window.
What is volet in Tamil?
Volet in Tamil is மொட்டாக்கு. See Volet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is volet?
Volet is a noun.
What is the plural of volet?
The plural of volet is volets.

Words near volet in the dictionary

  1. volentary
  2. volepox
  3. voleries
  4. volery
  5. voles
  6. volet
  7. volets
  8. volga
  9. Volga Federal District
  10. Volga German
  11. Volga Germans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volet (page history and authors); volet (Tamil 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.

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