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Hook and eye

noun

A kind of fastener used on clothing.

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"Hook and eye" Quotes from Famous Books

... as she stood before the long mirror and watched the buckling on of her armor, her armor of taffeta and velvet with the colors of sunlit leaves and noon-warmed flowers in carefully elected wrinkles assured with many a hook and eye. Her image was radiant and pliant and altogether love-worthy, but her thoughts were ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... a poem I had to write about hair-pins—and oh, it almost stuck! It acted as if it were going to, so I watched it longer than usual. But now I guess we're off," she ended turning to fasten the door behind her. Sara noticed that she fastened it with a hook and eye exactly like the ones on Mother's prettiest waist—only this one was more valuable, ...

— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker

... chain of 40 loops, and work from the directions given for collar, page 38. Finish, to correspond with, collar, placing a rosette in the centre of the cuff, and fastening with a hook and eye. ...

— The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 • Unknown

Words linked to "Hook and eye" : fixing, fastening, holdfast, fastener