köken: After Étienne de Silhouette (1709–1767), French Controller of Finances. De Silhouette's penny-pinching led to the term à la Silhouette, applied to things perceived as cheap or austere, such as an outline filled only with black. Étienne de Silhouette's surname is, in turn, gallicized Basque. It derives from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, modern Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stem of zulo…
köken: Borrowed from Dutch silhouet (“silhouette”), from French silhouette, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stern of zulo (“hole, cave”)
aile: bersiluet, siluet A, siluet H, siluet kaisar
Etimoloji
Borrowed from French silhouette. Doublet of Zulueta.