Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 10th, 2024
the Sixth Week after Easter
the Sixth Week after Easter
Attention!
We are taking food to Ukrainians still living near the front lines. You can help by getting your church involved.
Click to donate today!
Click to donate today!
Bible Encyclopedias
Aigrette
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Search for…
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
(from the Fr. for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from the moon's edge.
Copyright Statement
These files are public domain.
These files are public domain.
Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Aigrette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/aigrette.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Aigrette'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/aigrette.html. 1910.
