A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
(A' gret, A gret'): the long white plumes of the egret, once worn for ornament by women; also spelled aigret
Hair or hat ornament, usually of gold or silver, made in the shape of a feather or as a holder for a feather. Aigrettes were fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries and from the lat 19th to early 20thC.
a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
a a "spray of jewels or feather s, worn on a hat or in the hair
Feather from osprey or egret used to adorn or trim hats
tuft of feathers, usually stiff, used as hat ornament; originally from egrets.
describes a plume of feathers worn in woman's hair.
An aigrette (meaning "egret" in French) is a feather-shaped piece of jewelry that is worn in the hair or on a hat.
An ornament in the shape of an egret plume which may be worn on a turban, hat or in the hair, and is typically gemset or enameled, popular during the 17th and 18th centuries, and then again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A head ornament worn on a turban, hat, or in the hair to hold bird feathers, made entirely of metal and jewels often shaped in the form of feathers.
A feather-shaped piece of jewelry worn in the hair or on a hat. From the French word "egret", a white heron prized for its plumage.
Aigrette (from the French for egret, or lesser white heron), the tufted crest, or head-plumes of the egret, used for adorning a woman's head-dress, the term being also given to any similar ornament, in gems, &c. An aigrette is also worn by certain ranks of officers in the French army. By analogy the word is used in various sciences for feathery excrescences of like appearance, as for the tufts on the heads of insects, the feathery down of the dandelion, the luminous rays at the end of electrified bodies, or the luminous rays seen in solar eclipses, diverging from, the moon's edge.