guichet

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noun

A small hatch or grill.

OriginFrench guichet →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounguichet (plural guichets)

plural guichets

  1. A small hatch or grill.

    The door was walled up, his food passed through a guichet above, and a scanty allowance of light admitted through a small, barred window.

    1860, Horace Marryat, A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, page 51

Origin

  1. Frenchguichet
  2. Frenchguichet
  3. Englishguichet

Borrowed from French guichet.

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APA

guichet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guichet

MLA

“guichet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guichet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guichet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guichet.

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