agraffe

Jan. 9th, 2009 07:29 am
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agraffe - n., a hook-and-loop fastening, esp. an ornamental one on armor or clothing.


Also a couple other things, such a cramp iron used to hold stones of a building together, and a piece of a piano key's mechanism, but we'll ignore those. From French agrafe, from agrafer, to hook onto, from a- + grafer, to hook, that last being from Germanic roots.

---L.

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