Also 5–6 -elett, 5–7 -ellet. [a. OFr. angelet = It. angeletto, dim. of angelo ANGEL; cf. eaglet.]
† 1. A gold coin, half the value of the angel. Obs.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks., 284. My Lord sent home to my Lady in angelletes … x li.
1551. Procl. Edw. VI., in Wriothesley, Chron., II. 59. The third peece called an angelett of fine gould of fiue shillinges.
1608. W. Yonge, Diary (1848), 18. Flear’s wife offered one of them one hundred angeletts to let him escape.
1707. Fleetwood, Chron. Precios., 21. It appears that Angelets were the same with Half-Angels.
1834. Penny Cycl., s.v. Angel, The Angelets of Edward IV. have on the reverse, O crvx ave spes unica.
2. A little angel, a cherub; fig. a pretty child.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. xxii. (1865), 387. The Angelet sprang forth, fluttering its rudiments of pinions.
1868. G. Macdonald, Rob. Falc., III. 133. Smiling, as if she rejoiced in the idea of taming the little wild angelets.
