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billeted
We have found lemma(root) word of billeted : billet.
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[ˈbɪlɪt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a place, especially a civilian's house, where soldiers are lodged temporarily
(e.g: the sergeant gave them leave to rest while officers went in search of billets)
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Origin
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late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille (see bill). The verb is recorded in the late 16th century, and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th century; hence the current meaning
[ˈbɪlɪt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian's house
(e.g: most of the army was billeted within the town)
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Origin
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late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille (see bill). The verb is recorded in the late 16th century, and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th century; hence the current meaning
[ˈbɪlɪt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a thick piece of wood
- each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings
- a rectangle placed vertically as a charge
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French billette and billot, diminutives of bille ‘tree trunk’, from medieval Latin billa, billus ‘branch, trunk’, probably of Celtic origin
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