piet
nounUK /ˈpʌɪət/
Etymology From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.
- We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:
- Related terms
- piet-my-vrou