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▪ I. templet1, -ette
[In sense 1, a. F. templette, dim. of temple fem. (in mod.F. tempe), temple n.2 Sense 2 may be a different word.]
†1. An ornament worn by women on the head; = temple n.2 2. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 279/2 Templet a thynge made of latyn, templete. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 907 (Names of womens rementes) The templettes, les templettes.
2. Each of the four-sided facets which surround and ‘support’ the table of a brilliant.
1889Cent. Dict., Bezel..2, the oblique side or face of a gem; spec. one of four similarly situated four-sided facets on the top or crown of a brilliant, which are sometimes called templets.
▪ II. templet2 Weaving.
[dim. of temple n.3: as mod.F. templet (which may be the source).]
= temple n.3 1.
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 223 The woven silk is kept at its proper degree of extension by small hooks, called templets. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2529/2 The templet of the horsehair-loom is a pair of jaws for each selvedge.
▪ III. templet3|ˈtɛmplɪt|
Also -ette.
[f. temple n.1 + -et1.]
A small or miniature temple.
a1843in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. III. 657/1 Fagutal, a beechen temple or templet under Jupiter Fagutalis. 1848J. G. Wilkinson Dalmatia, etc. I. 183 A little round templet, or open lantern on columns, in style and name worthy of a tea-garden. 1892Harper's Mag. Aug. 355/1 This temple—it is so small that they might call it a templette.
▪ IV. templet
var. template. |