latchet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of latchet
1300–50; Middle English lachet < Middle French, dialectal variant of lacet. See lace, -et
Example Sentences
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And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Bondad sua, señor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
"Unfit to kiss thy shoon's latchet, sweet—" "Yet hast untied the latchets of my heart."
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
It has been a special joy of this December that our son Stephen is given to the church, “whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
From Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark by
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