jan 1, 1544 - aglet

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Originally, it is said, this was the metallic tag on the end of a lace which made it easier to thread through an eyelet. Later the tag became a decorative item and the word had this meaning in most of the examples noted. In 1486, Thomas Pereson of Beverley inherited <i>a typpet of blak velvet with sylver aglettes </i>(SS53/19): in 1544 the wife of Arthur Thompson of Wakefield was left <i>a ribbon with towe siluer aglettes </i>(Th19/102).

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