fermillet

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English

Etymology

From Old French fermeillet, diminutive of fermeil, fermail (“clasp”), probably from Old French fermer (“to make fast”) (> French fermer (“to make fast”)), from ferme (“fast”). See firm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɜː(ɹ)mɪlət/

Noun

fermillet (plural fermillets)

  1. (obsolete) A buckle or clasp.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, The Auncient History of the Septuagint:
      Those stones were sustained or stayed by buckles and fermillets of gold for more firmness.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fermillet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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