Etymology

scantlet

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Today it means: A small pattern or quantity. Full definition →

Old French eschantelet
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromeschantelet“corner”
  2. English todayscantlet

From Old French eschantelet (“corner”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.