latchet

NOUN
  1. a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot
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How To Use latchet In A Sentence

  • Another method of fastening shoes involved using ribbon or tapes to secure latchets which are folded over.
  • The cover with mock latchet and ring finial and the two-stepped, angular handles on the body are popular features on pieces from 1800 onwards.
  • And I have been told, upon a sentinel at Rome, as he stood to guard the temple, burned the latchet of his shoe, and did no other harm; and several silver candlesticks lying in wooden boxes, the silver was melted while the boxes lay untouched. Essays and Miscellanies
  • Buckles were made to be attached to the shoe's two straps, or latchets, securing them over the instep.
  • This would also be consistent with the latchets, which were likely fastened over the instep with a buckle.
  • The shoes lose their fit and the latchets soon have to replaced by a cobbled-in bit of scrap leather.
  • The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of Finnegans Wake
  • The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of Finnegans Wake
  • He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • The latchet was the thong by which the sandal was bound on the foot. The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
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