alette

[uh-let]

noun

1. (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch.

2. a small wing of a building.

3. either jamb of a doorway.

Word History and Origins

Origin of alette¹

1810–20; < French, variant of ailette

Example Sentences

Alette Simmons-Jimenez is part of a WhatsApp text group with about 60 women who keep a hawkish watch as appointment slots open in Miami-Dade, where Jackson Memorial Hospital is helping in the effort to vaccinate 465,000 of the county’s most vulnerable seniors who are 65 and older — from shuts-ins to snowbirds.

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Alette Simmons-Jimenez is part of a WhatsApp text group with about 60 women who keep a hawkish watch as appointment slots open in Miami-Dade, where Jackson Memorial Hospital is helping in the effort to vaccinate 465,000 of the county’s most vulnerable seniors who are 65 and older - from shuts-ins to snowbirds.

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But on Twitter, his wife, Alette Longerbeam, wrote that she was “really at a loss, really feeling lost. I can’t wrap my head around this.”

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Semantics aside, clothes that fit properly “increase confidence and independence,” said Alette Coble-Temple, a psychology professor at John F. Kennedy University in California and a disability rights-activist.

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Thus even would every bitter feeling have vanished out of Susanna's soul, could she have seen how deeply dissatisfied was Harald at this time with himself,—how warmly he upbraided himself for the words which, during the yesterday's dawn, had passed his lips, without there being any actual seriousness in them; and how displeased he was by the promise which he had given to Alette, and with the resolve he had made, in consequence of her anxieties and advice.

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