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angelot arch.|ˈændʒələt|
[a. Fr. angelot, dim. of OFr. angele:—L. angel-us angel n.]
†1. A French gold coin struck by Louis XI, bearing the image of St. Michael with the dragon under his feet; also a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. Obs.
1525State Papers, Hen. VIII, VI. 505 The money lent at his first transporting..forty thousand angelottes. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Angelot, an antient English gold coin, struck at Paris, while under the English subjection. It was thus called from the figure of an angel supporting the scutcheon of the arms of England and France.
†2. A small rich cheese, made in Normandy. [Littré says because stamped with the coin.] Obs.
1611Cotgr., Angelot, the cheese called an Angelot. 1655Mouffet & Benn. Health's Impr. (1746) 221 The Angelots of Normandy are counted restorative. 1674T. Duffet Amorous Old. Wom. i. ii, As mellow as an Angelot Cheese, that has been mortifi'd Fifteen Months in Horse-dung. 1719Accompl. Fem. Instr. (N.) To make angelots. 1753in Chambers; and in mod. Dicts.
3. A musical instrument.
1678Phillips, Angelot..a sort of Musical Instrument somewhat like a Lute. 1863Browning Sordello ii. Wks. III. 306 How to twirl His angelot, plaything of page or girl Once. Ibid. iv. III. 382 For elegance he strung the angelot, Made rhymes thereto. |