gusset

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You stop three inches before your heel and knit the gusset, the heel turn and then the heel flap.

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  1. noun A triangular insert, as in the seam of a garment, for added strength or expansion.
  2. noun A triangular metal bracket used to strengthen a joist.
  3. noun A piece of mail or plate armor protecting the joints in a suit of armor.

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  • You stop three inches before your heel and knit the gusset, the heel turn and then the heel flap. —  a ball of yarn and a remote control
  • The gusset is interesting because it makes a cool V for your foot. —  a ball of yarn and a remote control
  • Making pretext to be looking for a gusset for an armor joint, I made my way near the entrance. —  Under the Rose
  • This is put round the armholes, over the shoulder, and down to the hem of the garment over the seam, where a curious gusset or gore runs from the front part to the corner of the train. —  Southern Arabia
  • This offers as much resistance as a gusset and is more quickly done Illustration: FACED PLACKET A_--Wrong side, opened, showing tape; B_--Right side showing on-set piece; aa and bb the same ends of the tape; 1-2 method of folding and cutting end of on-set piece Sidenote: Faced Placket In a third kind of placket, the opening is faced with a continuous piece of tape on both sides and finished with a piece of material on the outside. —  Textiles and Clothing
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  1. Middle English, from Old French gousset, perhaps diminutive of gousse, pod, husk.

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  1. Formerly also gushet; from Old French gousset, goucet, French gousset, the armhole, a triangular space left between two joints of armor, a piece of plate used to cover such space, a triangular piece or gore of cloth, a bracket, also (modern F. only) a fob or watch-pocket (cf. Old French *goussete, gossette, feminine, a little husk or hull), diminutive of gousse = Italian guscio, dial. gussa, gossa, guss, goss, a husk, hull, pod, shell: of uncertain origin, prob. Teutonic, being perhaps a variant of the form which appears as F. housse, a covering, mat, mantel, etc. (see house, housing), ult. related with English hull: see hull.
  2. from gusset, n.
 

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