单词 | eyelet |
释义 | eyelet/ˈʌɪlɪt /noun 1A small round hole in leather or cloth for threading a lace, string, or rope through.Inside the boot's leather-and-nylon shell, an adjustable hook-and-loop heel strap, pulley eyelets, and cord laces snug up the quarter-inch-thick insulated liner....
1.1A metal ring used to reinforce an eyelet in leather or cloth.And then they went and put metal eyelets in them....
1.2A small hole ornamented with stitching around its edge, used as a form of decoration in embroidery: [as modifier]: the white eyelet duvet...
2A small hole or slit in a wall for looking through.The tomb itself is almost like a miniature fortress, with sloping crenellated outer walls, complete with eyelets for archery....
verb (eyelets, eyeleting, eyeleted) [with object] Make eyelets in (fabric): (as adjective eyeleted) her dress is of the whitest fabric, all eyeleted, embroidered, sashed...
OriginLate Middle English oilet, from Old French oillet, diminutive of oil 'eye', from Latin oculus. The change in the first syllable in the 17th century was due to association with eye. Rhymes |
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