Noun: tercelet
| Singular | tercelet |
| Plural | tercelets |
Sample Sentences
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In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite; [1999, Geoffrey Lester, Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like tercelet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tercelet, from Old French tercelet; equivalent to tiercel + -et. See: Middle English Nouns '
tercelet', Middle English Nouns '
tercelet'.