Obs. rare. Also 4 sonete, 5 sownette. [a. OF. sonete, sonnette, sonnet (mod.F. sonnette), f. son sound.] A bell.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1415. Notes of pipes, Tymbres & tabornes,… Symbales & sonetez.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. xlv. 77 b/2. By cause that they songe theyr seruyce, they myghte not here those sayde Camellis, ne theyr grete sownettes ne belles.
1494. in Lett. Rich. III. & Hen. VII. (Rolls), I. 394. Their hors richely trapped…, enramplised with sonnettes of siluer.
