aiguillette

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ornamental braided cord with decorative metal tips worn on uniforms.
    — Lancers wore Dragoon jackets with embroidered cuffs and collars, enormous epaulettes and an aiguillette. They wore very high Polish caps with square crowns, with a brass plate in front and topped with a plume.
  2. Alternative form of aiglet (“metal tip on a ribbon or cord that facilitates lacing two parts of a garment together”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

aiguillettes plural aglet alternative aiglet alternative

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词源

Borrowed from French aiguillette, from Middle French aiguillette, from Old French aguillete. Doublet of aglet and aiglet.
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