vergette
See also: Vergette
English edit
Etymology edit
From French.
Noun edit
vergette (plural vergettes)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vergette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Etymology edit
From verge (“rod”) + -ette, from Latin virga.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vergette f (plural vergettes)
- (literally) a small (wooden) rod
- a clothes-brush
- (heraldry) a pale at least fivefold thinner than usual
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vergette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.