Meanings
nounespagnolette (plural espagnolettes)
plural espagnolettes
- A locking device normally mounted on a pair French windows or casement window.
Origin
- Frenchespagnolette
- Englishespagnolette
Borrowed from French espagnolette.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan falleba
- fallebalocking device
Dutch espagnoletsluiting
- espagnoletsluitinglocking device
Finnish espanjoletti
- espanjolettilocking device
French espagnolette
- espagnolettelocking device
German Drehriegel
- Drehriegellocking device
Norwegian Bokmål espagnolett
- espagnolettlocking device
Swedish spanjolett
- spanjolettlocking device
Turkish ispanyolet
- ispanyoletlocking device
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