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attelet

noun
at·​te·​let | \ ˈa-tə-ˌlā How to pronounce attelet (audio) \
plural attelets

Definition of attelet

: a small, ornamental metal skewer used as decoration when serving food Each pyramid of sandwiches is surmounted by a silver attelet run through a small paper or silk pennon, and bearing the name of the sandwich in silver or gold letters.— Janet McKenzie Hill, The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, June–July 1901 Fluted lemon and truffle rounds are strung along a decorative attelet piercing the bird's rump.— Gael Greene, New York Magazine, 31 July 1972

First Known Use of attelet

1847, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for attelet

borrowed from French attelet, hâtelet, going back to Middle French hastelet “skewer of roasted meat”

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