An archaic or alternative form of gazette, a newspaper or official journal, especially one published by authority.
From Italian gazzetta (possibly from Arabic qasa, meaning 'to inform'), an early term for newspapers; this is an older English spelling form that gradually evolved into the modern 'gazette.'
The word gazette traveled from Italy with early newspapers—'gazet' and 'gazette' show the spelling variations that happened as English writers slowly standardized how to write borrowed words.
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