From the French -ette, as in caissette, poulette.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
Il fait d'un coq une poulette.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
"A la Claire Fontaine," "Dans Paris y a-t-une Brune plus Belle que le Jour," "Sur le Pont d'Avignon," "En Roulant ma Boule," "La poulette Grise," and a hundred other folk-songs linger among the peasants and voyageurs of these northern woods.
"Little Rivers A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness"
Henry van Dyke