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单词 epistolet
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epistoletn.

Brit. /ᵻˌpɪstəˈlɛt/, U.S. /ᵻˈpɪstəˌlɛt/
Forms:

α. 1800s– epistolet.

β. 1800s epistolette.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin epistola , -et suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin epistola epistle n. + -et suffix1. Compare Middle French, French (rare) †epistolette (1545 in Middle French, subsequently recorded in some 18th- and 19th-cent. dictionaries as an obsolete and rare word), Italian epistoletta (1495 or earlier as †epistoleta).With the β. forms compare -ette suffix.
Chiefly literary. rare.
A small epistle.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > short letter or note
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1824 C. Lamb Let. 25 Feb. (1935) II. 418 You see thro' my wicked intention of curtailing this Epistolet.
1847 Columbian Mag. Apr. 181/1 Who has sent me this beautiful epistolette? my mischievous cousins, the girls at home! No, none of them, humph.
1942 Lowell (Mass.) Sun & Citizen-Leader 13 Feb. 8/2 Several letters have arrived, some in favor and some against. The most recent epistolet follows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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