angelet

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"Ah, Bartle! wilt thou do that for a gold angelet which thou wouldst not for the love of God or thy neighbour?

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  1. An English gold coin, first issued by Edward IV., of the value of half an angel. See angel, 5, and angelot.
  2. A little angel or child angel. [Rare.] The angelet sprang forth, fluttering its rudiments of pinions. Lamb, The Child Angel.

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  • "Ah, Bartle! wilt thou do that for a gold angelet which thou wouldst not for the love of God or thy neighbour? —  The King's Daughters
  • Nor was the sister an angelet. —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • "Mayhap that shall help you," replied the miller, holding up an angelet, namely, a gold coin, value 3 shillings 4 pence -- the smallest gold coin then made. —  The King's Daughters
  • Mr Ewring had never spent an angelet better than in securing the transmission of that one word, which was the instrument in God's hand to save two immortal souls. —  The King's Daughters
  • "Isoult, if thou canst ever get my left shoe off, I will give thee a gold angelet [half-angel; in other words, a gold crown]. —  Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution
 

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  1. Late Middle English angelett, from Old French angelet, diminutive of angele, from Late Latin angelus, angel. Cf. angelot.
 

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