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In clothes, "une agrafe" is a hook used for fastening 2 edges of material together - usually more reliable than "un bouton-pression" (= a press button)
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In the medical world, "une agrafe" is 'a skin clip '... but let's forget about them for the time being.
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Toubon has issued a dictionary of approved French equivalents, some of them ludicrously unwieldy, such as the word agrafe (staple), mandated to replace video "clip."
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Hint: the next word of the day will be agrafe ....
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In clothes, "une agrafe" is a hook used for fastening 2 edges of material together - usually more reliable than "un bouton-pression" = a press button
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In the medical world, "une agrafe" is 'a skin clip'... but let's forget about them for the time being.
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The pardessus is confined in front (not quite so low as the waist) by a gilt agrafe.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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This consists of a triple-branched agrafe, provided with a kind of hinge.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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A tiny toy needle-gun suspended to the agrafe is pulled outwards and turned over the top of the bottle, whereupon the fastening becomes instantly disengaged, and anything like trouble, uncleanliness, or annoyance is entirely avoided.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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Men or lads remove the full bottles, replacing them by empty ones, while other hands convey them to the corkers, whose guillotine machines are incessantly in motion; next the _agrafeurs_ secure the corks by means of an iron staple, termed an agrafe; and then the bottles are conveyed either to a capacious apartment aboveground, known as a cellier, or to a cool cellar, according to the number of atmospheres the wine may indicate.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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