Colet

¹

[kol-it]

noun

1. John, 1467?–1519, English educator and clergyman.

colet.

²

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) let it be strained.

Colet

/ ˈkɒlɪt /

noun

1. John. ?1467–1519, English humanist and theologian; founder of St Paul's School, London (1509)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Colet¹

From the Latin word colētur

Example Sentences

"We didn't have an excuse to practice, so it's damaged my performance as a player," said Rhys Colet, who has played with the band for six years.

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Christine Colet Walker, a researcher at the University of Surrey, says some families with loved ones in Four Seasons' care homes will be concerned about its future.

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There is a beautiful account here of how she wrote certain stories based on Flaubert’s letters to his lover, the writer Louise Colet.

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She wrote biographies of several French women, including 20th-century philosopher Simone Weil; Louise Colet, a writer and the muse of 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert; and Madame de Staël, a writer and intellectual who lived from 1766 to 1817.

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And in 1853, Flaubert wrote to the poet Louise Colet: “What artists we would be if we had never read, seen or loved anything that was not beautiful; if from the outset some guardian angel of the purity of our pens had kept us from all contamination. ...Life! Life! To have erections! That is everything, the only thing that counts!”

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