Where does “aigrette” come from?
aigrette (Old French) comes from Old Occitan aigreta, from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish haigrō, from Frankish hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic hraigrô, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kreik-.
aigrette (Old French): egret
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Words derived from “aigrette”