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English
Etymology
From French guichet.
Noun
guichet (plural guichets)
- A small hatch or grill.
1860, Horace Marryat, A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, page 51:The door was walled up, his food passed through a guichet above, and a scanty allowance of light admitted through a small, barred window.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, a diminutive of Old Norse vík (“bay”). Compare English wicket, ultimately from the same source through Old Northern French and/or Anglo-Norman.
Pronunciation
Noun
guichet m (plural guichets)
- (archaic) (small) door, gate (in wall, fort etc.); wicket
- hatch, grill (in cell etc.)
- ticket office, box office, ticket booth
- counter (at post office, bank etc.)
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Old French
Noun
guichet oblique singular, m (oblique plural guichez or guichetz, nominative singular guichez or guichetz, nominative plural guichet)
- small door