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Definition of Latchets
1. latchet [n] - See also: latchet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latchets
Literary usage of Latchets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... fastened with latchets; any coarse shoe. My heart-blood is nigh well from I feel,
... latchets ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"Two latchets are laid upon the faddle, which hang down on both fides of the ...
ufe to drain the latchets, and to tie things hard. ..."
3. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873)
"For instance, in the one before us, to unloose the latchets of his shoes brings
me into contact ... True, it is but the loosing of shoe- latchets, but then, ..."
4. Ulster Journal of Archaeology (1903)
"The theory now in the field is that they were latchets or fasteners, ... It has
been suggested that Serpentine latchets would be a more appropriate ..."
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