angelot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French angelot, Late Latin angelotus.

Noun

angelot (plural angelots) (obsolete)

A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI, bearing the image of Saint Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.
A sort of small, rich cheese made in Normandy, especially Pont-l'Évêque cheese but formerly applied to other cheeses.
(music) An old musical instrument similar to the lute.
- 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Second”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 66:
  Much as you study arras how to twirl / His Angelot, plaything of page and girl, / Once; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “angelot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)