-ettesuff.1. Small; diminutive: kitchenette.2. Female: usherette.3. An imitation or inferior kind of cloth: leatherette.[Middle English, from Old French, feminine of -et, -et.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-ette suffix forming nouns 1. small: cigarette; kitchenette. 2. female: majorette; suffragette. 3. (esp in trade names) imitation: Leatherette. [from French, feminine of -et]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-ette a noun suffix occurring orig. in loanwords from French (brunette; cigarette; coquette; etiquette); as an English suffix, -ette forms diminutives (kitchenette; novelette), distinctively feminine nouns (majorette; usherette), and names of imitation products (leatherette). Compare -et. [