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- noun Plural form of
latchet .
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Examples
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“And what is the news, then, old woman?” said the impatient glover, still busying himself with the hundred points or latchets which were the means of attaching the doublet to the hose.
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I remember Dr Adam Smith, in his rhetorical lectures at Glasgow, told us he was glad to know that Milton wore latchets in his shoes, instead of buckles.
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Rubenius shewed my father how well they all fitted, — in what manner they laced on, — with what points, straps, thongs, latchets, ribbands, jaggs, and ends. — — But I want to be informed about the breeches, said my father.
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Rubenius shewed my father how well they all fitted, — in what manner they laced on, — with what points, straps, thongs, latchets, ribbands, jaggs, and ends. — — But I want to be informed about the breeches, said my father.
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Still, why should I provide entertainment for those wretched soulless creatures who live only to laugh at one whose shoe-latchets they are not fit to unlace?
Changed Man and the King of Words Card, Orson Scott 1979
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Another countryman, Thomas Crofton Croker, assailed after his death the man whose shoe-latchets he would have been proud to unloose during his life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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The old man arises, and draws on his body raiment, and ties the Tyrrhene shoe latchets about his feet; then buckles to his side and shoulder his Tegeaean sword, and swathes himself in a panther skin that droops upon his left.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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These shoes upon the holy feet that we dug up were as round at the toe as at the heel, and the latchets were all of one piece with the uppers.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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I speak of them with respect; their shoe-latchets many of us are not worthy to unloose.
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As he fumbled, in a very panic and spasm of fear, with the latchets of his front gate Squire
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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