latchet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of latchet
1300–50; Middle English lachet < Middle French, dialectal variant of lacet. See lace, -et
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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
It was a trying time, but she safely passed through it, and quickly found herself at the little latchet gate below the bowling green.
From Heiress of Haddon by William E. Doubleday
Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
And he preached, saying There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
From The Spirit and the Word A Treatise on the Holy Spirit in the Light of a Rational Interpretation of the Word of Truth by Zachary Taylor Sweeney
"Unfit to kiss thy shoon's latchet, sweet—" "Yet hast untied the latchets of my heart."
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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