Meanings
pacquet1
plural pacquets
- obsoleteObsolete form of packet.
Dear Bethel, I here broke off, on receiving intelligence that a meſſenger from Marſeilles had a pacquet to deliver to me.
1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 2761 more example
My maid was inquired for below, and the pacquet delivered into her hands, with an injunction that she should give it me when I was alone, and say it came from a lady at Marseilles.
1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 26
present singular third person pacquets · participle present pacquetting · participle past pacquetted · past pacquetted
- obsoleteObsolete form of packet.
Pacquet2
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