pacquet
Appearance
See also: Pacquet
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pacquet (plural pacquets)
- Obsolete form of packet.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 276:
- Dear Bethel, I here broke off, on receiving intelligence that a meſſenger from Marſeilles had a pacquet to deliver to me.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 26:
- My maid was inquired for below, and the pacquet delivered into her hands, with an injunction that she should give it me when I was alone, and say it came from a lady at Marseilles.
Verb
[edit]pacquet (third-person singular simple present pacquets, present participle pacquetting, simple past and past participle pacquetted)
References
[edit]- “pacquet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak + -et (which in any case it is equivalent to).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pacquet (plural pacquetz)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “paket, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-04.
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