godet
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godet
- /ɡəʊˈdeɪ/
- /ɡəʊˈdɛt/
Where it comes from
From Middle French godet, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”).
noun godets
- A drinking cup.
- A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset. A pie-shaped godet (the most common one), is usually cut with straight grain down the center of the piece of fabric, leaving bias edges on the sides.
- A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing. 1991, Textile Asia, Volume 22, Issues 1-6, page 54, Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets. After the yarn guiding block a heated godet with idler roll acts as a spinning godet and thus defines spinning […
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noun piece of fabric inserted to lengthen the free edge
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Talk about this word "godet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/godet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. godet. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/godet "godet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/godet.
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@misc{godet_2026,
title = {godet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/godet},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
