gusset
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gusset
- /ˈɡʌsɪt/ US, UK
- /ˈɡasət/ Australia
Rhymes with -ʌsɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset (“the hollow of the armpit”), diminutive of gose, gosse (“bean pod, hull, husk”).
noun gussets · gousset
- A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
- A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
- A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
- A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
- An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.
verb gussets · gusseting · gusseted · gousset
- To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.
Translations
Every language
noun small piece of mail
| Deutsch | Kettengeflechtsegment |
|---|
noun small piece of cloth inserted in a garment
| Español | escudete |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 거셋 geoset, 마찌 majji, 무 mu |
| 日本語 | 襠 machi |
| Français | gousset |
| Deutsch | Zwickel |
| Italiano | gherone, linguetta |
| Ελληνικά | τσόντα tsónta |
| Română | guseu |
| Русский | клин klin, ла́стовица lástovica |
noun machinery: a kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron
| Français | gousset |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Eckblech, Verstärkung, Strebe |
| Русский | углово́е соедине́ние uglovóje sojedinénije, науго́льник naugólʹnik |
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title = {gusset},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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