languette
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of languet.
noun
Alternative form of languet.
noun
A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century.
Example Sentences
- "The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle."
- "Bronze sword. The curved heel has a small central languette or tongue."
- "This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them."
- "The wing-like opisthohaptor, bearing two rows of clamps placed end to end and separated by an anchorbearing lobe or languette -- in effect forming a straight angle -- is distinctive."
- "Opisthaptor: four pairs of pedunculate suckers (cup-like and with circular or oval apertures) and a terminal languette 0.11 mm. long and 0.03 mm. broad."
- "At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx."
Etymology
From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua. By surface analysis, Old French langue + -ette.