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flageolet

/fla.ʒɔ.lɛ/

noun, masculine/fla.ʒɔ.lɛ/plural: flageolets

flageolet (type of small flute)

Related: flageolettiste

From Old French flajol (“flute”) + diminutive -et; probably from Vulgar Latin *flabeolum (“flute”), from Latin flāre (“to blow”).

noun, masculine/fla.ʒɔ.lɛ/plural: flageolets

A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

Borrowed from Italian fagiolo (“bean”), from Latin phaseolus (“bean”), diminutive form of phasēlus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”).