aiglet

• aglet
• aiguillette, aygulet

Borrowed from Middle French aiguillette (“needle”), diminutive of aiguille.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ɡlɛt/

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aiglet (plural aiglets)

1. 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.
   • 1545, Roger Ascham, “The Seconde Booke”, in Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions of Shooting […], [new] edition, London: […] Thomas Marshe, published 1571, →OCLC, folio 38, recto:

     Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, ſhall race his bowe, a thinge both euill for the fight, & perillous for freatinge.

2. 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

• “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.

• gelati, ligate

• aiguillette

From aiguille +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɡlɛ/ ~ /e.ɡlɛ/

aiglet m (plural aiglets)

1. aiglet
2. needle

• gelait