aiglet
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French aiguillette (“needle”), diminutive of aiguille.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aiglet (plural aiglets)
- A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
- An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- a silken Camus […] Which all aboue besprinckled was throughout, / With golden aygulets, that glistred bright
Translations
[edit]tip on a ribbon or cord
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References
[edit]- “aiglet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Medieval Costume and Fashion, by Herbert Norris, Courier Dover Publications, 1999, p. 365.
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[edit]French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]aiglet m (plural aiglets)
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