arch. [a. Fr. angelot, dim. of OFr. angele:—L. angel-us ANGEL.]
† 1. A French gold coin struck by Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael with the dragon under his feet; also a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI. Obs.
1525. State Papers, Hen. VIII., VI. 505. The money lent at his first transporting … forty thousand angelottes.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Angelot, an antient English gold coin, struck at Paris, while under the English subjection. It was thus called from the figure of an angel supporting the scutcheon of the arms of England and France.
† 2. A small rich cheese, made in Normandy. [Littré says because stamped with the coin.] Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Angelot, the cheese called an Angelot.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 221. The Angelots of Normandy are counted restorative.
1674. T. Duffett, Amorous Old Wom., I. ii. As mellow as an Angelot Cheese, that has been mortifi’d Fifteen Months in Horse-dung.
1704. Accompl. Fem. Instr., II. 102 (N.) To make Angelots. Take a Quart of Milk [etc.].
1753. in Chambers; and in mod. Dicts.
3. A musical instrument.
1678. Phillips, Angelot… a aort of Musical Instrument somewhat like a Lute.
1863. Browning, Sordello, II. Wks. III. 306. How to twirl His angelot, plaything of page or girl Once. Ibid., IV. III. 382. For elegance he strung the angelo, Made rhymes thereto.
