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Definition of Aigritte
{ Ai"gret (&?;), Ai*grette (&?;), }
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.] 1.(Zoöl.)The small white European heron. See
Egret.
2.A plume or tuft for the head composed of
feathers, or of gems, etc.Prescott.
3.A tuft like that of the egret.(Bot.)A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette
or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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