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paroquet (PAR-uh-ket) - n., any of several small, long-tailed parrots.
An older form of parakeet, one closer to the original spelling when it was borrowed in the 16th century from French paroquet (which originally was a diminutive of Pierrot, itself either a diminutive of Pierre, Peter, a common name for a parrot or from Italian parrocchetto, little parish priest) either directly or via Spanish perquito.
---L.
An older form of parakeet, one closer to the original spelling when it was borrowed in the 16th century from French paroquet (which originally was a diminutive of Pierrot, itself either a diminutive of Pierre, Peter, a common name for a parrot or from Italian parrocchetto, little parish priest) either directly or via Spanish perquito.
---L.
