lancet – English noun declension

English noun forms of lancet

Noun: lancet
Singularlancet
Plurallancets

Sample Sentences

  • With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus. [2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 248:]
  • He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window lancets were sheets of black. [2014, Richard Powers, Orfeo, W. W. Norton & Company, page 234:]

Etymology

From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance. By surface analysis, lance + -et. See: Middle English Nouns 'launcet'.