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aigret
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aigret has 1 sense
- aigret(n = noun.artifact) aigrette - a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume; Array is a kind of plume
CIDE DICTIONARY
aigret, n. [F., a sort of white heron, with a tuft of feathers on its head; a tuft of feathers; dim. of the same word as heron. See Heron, and cf. Egret, Egrette.].
- The small white European heron. See Egret. [1913 Webster]
- A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- A tuft like that of the egret. [1913 Webster]
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