ANGELOT, an ancient English gold coin, struck
at Paris, while under subjection to the English. It
was thus called from the figure of an angel supporting
the scutcheon of the arms of England and France.
There was another coin of the same denomination
struck under Philip de Valois.
ANGELOT is also used in Commerce to denote a
small, fat, rich sort of cheese, brought from Normandy.
Skinner supposes it to have been thus called from the
name of the person who first made it up in that form,
and perhaps stamped it with his own name. Menage
takes it to have been denominated from the resemblance
it bears to the English coin called angelot. It is made
chiefly in the Pays de Bray, whence it is also denomi-
nated angelot de Bray. It is commonly made in vats,
either square or shaped like a heart.