amorette

amorette (plural amorettes)

1. Obsolete form of amoret.

• amorette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• amourette

Borrowed from Middle French amourette, form Old French amorette, from amor (“love”) + -ette (“diminutive suffix”); equivalent to amour +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /amuˈrɛt(ə)/, /ˈamurɛt(ə)/

amorette (plural amorettes)

1. amoret
   • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 890-2.

     For nought y-clad in silk was he,

     But al in floures and flourettes,

     Y-painted al with amorettes;

• English: amoret

• “amorette, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.