alette

American  

[uh-let] / əˈlɛt /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of alette

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From Washington Times

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.”

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

Alette is much more steady than you.'

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