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Webster 1913 Edition

Aigrette

{

Ai′gret

,

Ai-grette

, }
Noun.
[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.
(Zool.)
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 1828 Edition

Aigrette

A'IGRET

, AIGRETTE,
Noun.
1.
In zoology, a name of the small white heron.
2.
In botany. [See Egret.]

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