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‖ allumette|alymɛt|
[Fr., f. allumer to set light to (:—late L. adlūmināre, f. ad to + lūmen light) + -ette dim. formative.]
A match for lighting.
1848Lowell Poet. Wks. (1879) 127/2 Twisting an allumette out of one of you..and relighting my calumet. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Round the World i. xii. 193 If any allumettes are discovered they are pitilessly confiscated. 1882Froude Carlyle viii. 121 A faggot or two of cedar allumettes. |