Noun: egret
| Singular | egret |
| Plural | egrets |
Sample Sentences
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Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides. [2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 64:]
Nouns inflected like egret
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman egret, aigrette (“egret”), from Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”), from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish *haigro (“heron”). Cognate with Old High German heigaro (“heron”), Old English hrāgra (“heron”). Doublet of aigrette. More at heron. See: Old English Nouns '
hrāgra'.
Verbs referencing "egret"
Irish Nouns
éigrit.