gantelet

From gant +‎ -elet.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃t.lɛ/

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gantelet m (plural gantelets)

1. gauntlet (armored glove)
2. gauntlet (falconer's glove)
3. gauntlet (challenge)

• envoyer son gantelet
• ramasser le gantelet

• “gantelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• gauntlet

First known attestation in the late 13th century in the plural gantelés. From gant +‎ -elet (no evidence of an intermediate *gantel).

gantelet oblique singular, m (oblique plural gantelez or ganteletz, nominative singular gantelez or ganteletz, nominative plural gantelet)

1. gauntlet (armored glove)

• French: gauntlet, gantlet
• → Middle English: gauntelet, gantelet, gauntlet
  • English: gauntlet
  • Yola: gauntletès (plural)
• → Spanish: guantelete

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “gantelet”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.