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Definition of Louisette

Louisette
Guillotine Guil"lo*tine` (g[i^]l"l[-o]*t[=e]n`), n. [F., from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword. The instrument was invented by Dr. Antoine Louis, and was called at first Louison or Louisette. Similar machines, however, were known earlier.] 1. A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim. 2. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

Meaning of Louisette from wikipedia

- For a period of time after its invention, the guillotine was called a louisette. However, it was later named after French physician and Freemason Joseph-Ignace...
- Louisette Bertholle (26 October 1905 – 26 November 1999) was a French cooking teacher and writer, best known as one of the three authors (with Julia Child...
- Louisette Geiss is the co-writer/ lyricist, producer (Diane Warren, Howard Kagan) of the musical, The Right Girl. Previous to 2020, she was a producer...
- Louisette Ighilahriz (born 22 August 1936) is an Algerian writer, former Conseil de la Nation member, and a former member of the Front de Libération Nationale...
- Louisette Dussault (12 June 1940 – 14 March 2023) was a Canadian actress and writer from Quebec. Louisette Dussault was born in Thetford Mines and studied...
- Louisette Texier, born Arpine Hovanessian (Armenian: Արփինե Հովհաննիսեան; 18 February 1913 – 20 July 2021) was a French resistant and racecar driver....
- The Bréguet Br 900 Louisette was a short-span, single-seat competition sailplane built in France in the 1940s. It set some French gliding records but...
- The co-authors of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and Julia Child, have described the dish as "certainly one...
- writer and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, pla**** a significant role in the introduction of French cooking...
- Louisette Thobi (born 19 June 1967) is a Cameroonian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...