aglet

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  1. noun A tag or sheath, as of plastic, on the end of a lace, cord, or ribbon to facilitate its passing through eyelet holes.
  2. noun A similar device used for an ornament.

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  • I must have tied up shoelaces thousands of times, and yet I never imagined there would be a word for those tags on the ends of them before one day I came across the word aglet (‘the metal tag of a lace or string’).I had a similar experience recently when encountering the word terret.
  • Bootlace aglet comparisons. —  Hooting Yard
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French aguillette, diminutive of aguille, needle, from Vulgar Latin *acūcula, from Late Latin acucula, diminutive of Latin acus, needle; see ak- in Indo-European roots.
 

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