Terms vs Aiglet - What's the difference?
terms | aiglet |
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, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
As nouns the difference between terms and aiglet
is that terms is while aiglet is 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.aiglet
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Alternative forms
* aglet * aiguillette * ayguletNoun
(en noun)- a silken Camus [...] Which all aboue besprinckled was throughout, / With golden aygulets , that glistred bright
