Crossword-Solution: AILETTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ailette | n. | A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Ornamental armor piece | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
RCNAEO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AILETTE (5)
Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg.
Continue, Pierre.” “Well, then, after that we were fighting here and there, on the Aisne, on the Ailette, everywhere.
Allemant, Vaudesson, Malmaison, and Chavignon, with 8000 prisoners, were taken on 23 October, and by the 27th the French had captured Pinon, Pargny, and Filain, and pressed through the Pinon forest to the banks of the Ailette and the Oise and Aisne canal.
Beginning on the 17th with an attack on a ten-mile front between Tracy-le-Val and Vingre he had steadily pushed on until by the 23rd his left flank held the Oise as far as its junction with the Ailette and his front faced the latter canalized river as far as Guny.
Continue, Pierre." "Well, then, after that we were fighting here and there, on the Aisne, on the Ailette, everywhere.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1991).