Aigrette

==English==
===Etymology===
From aigrette ‘egret’.
===Pronunciation===
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===Noun===
# The lesser white heron; the egret.
# A feather or plume, or feather-shaped item, used as an adornment or ornament.
#* 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 181:
#*: Young women attired often in nothing more than ostrich-feather aigrettes dyed in colors of doubtful taste ran nubilely up and down the marble staircases, chased by young men in razor-toed ball shoes of patent-leather.
# The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion)
===References===
* OED 2nd edition 1989
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==French==
===Noun===
# egret (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
# pappus
# crest (plumage)
# lumex
# feather (atop a hat)
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