volet

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noun

A shutter on a window.

OriginFrench volet →
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Meanings

nounvolet (plural volets)

plural volets

  1. A shutter on a window.
  2. artEither wing of a triptych.

    Painted on panel, and possibly the central volet of a triptych, it showed an enthroned Madonna rescuing from Satan a young man whom she clutches by the wrist.

    2009, Mario Buhagiar, Essays on the Knights and Art and Architecture in Malta, 1500–1798, →ISBN, page 85

Origin

  1. Frenchvolet
  2. Frenchvolet
  3. Englishvolet

Borrowed from French volet.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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