Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The name of a French gold coin, weighing from 97.22 to 87.96 grains, first issued in 1340 by Philip VI. On its obverse is an angel (whence the name of the coin) holding a cross and shield; on its reverse a cross, ornamented.
- n. The name of a gold coin, weighing about 35 grains, struck in France by Henry VI. of England for use in his French dominions. On its obverse is an angel holding the escutcheons of England and France.
- n. A small rich sort of cheese made in Normandy, said to have been stamped with a figure of the coin.
- n. An instrument of music somewhat resembling a lute.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
- n. obsolete An old musical instrument of the lute kind.
- n. obsolete A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
- n. An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.
- n. A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.
Etymologies
- French angelot, Late Latin angelotus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Man never caused such cruelty (lines 186 — 90) .63 Expecting to play the singing angelot (little angel), the boy enters the house only to take on the role of the aingnelés (little lamb), a reference to the young sheep led off by wolves, to the animal sacrifices of Jewish antiquity, and to Christ.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Despite their poverty, the boy received an education, during which he learned to sing, his voice being described as that of "a little angel" (angelot).”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“ANGEL, a gold coin, first used in France (_angelot, ange_) in 1340, and introduced into England by Edward IV. in 1465 as a new issue of the "noble," and so at first called the "angel-noble.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“[19] Spanish, _angelitos_; a play upon words, apparently alluding to the gold coin known as _angelot_ (from the figure of an angel thereon), used in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century.”
“The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a”
“The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English”
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