tonnelet

English

Noun

tonnelet (plural tonnelets)

1. Alternative form of tonlet
   • 1920, Sir Guy Francis Laking, Charles Alexander baron de Cosson, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries:

     The head-piece is a salade of German shape, with a lifting visor beneath which, attached to the breastplate [...] The most remarkable plates of this armour are those which compose its skirt or tonnelet, a part known in France as the grande braconnière: this skirt, which covers the thighs, consists of six plates.

   • 1992, Stephen Varick Dock, Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière: A Seventeenth-century Perspective:

     It consisted of a helmet with a pointed visor decorated with plumes along the crest, an ornate breastplate with a stomacher, a tonnelet covered with two different rows of bullion, and ankleboots.

French

Etymology

From Old French tonelet, diminutive of tonel (Modern French tonneau).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔn.lɛ/

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Noun

tonnelet m (plural tonnelets)

1. keg (round wooden container that has a flat top and bottom)

Further reading

• “tonnelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• entôlent