Meaning

2 senses
  1. A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet.

    Merlette

    мартлетmartlet

  2. (obsolete)A bird, the martin.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
depiction of a mythological bird:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
depiction of a mythological bird:

Origin

From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French m

From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French martinet and Medieval Latin martineta) and Middle French merlet.

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Forms

plural: martlets
Singularmartlet
Pluralmartlets

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmerlette

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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