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Agraffe   Listen
noun
Agraffe  n.  
1.
A hook or clasp. "The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants."
2.
A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.





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"Agraffe" Quotes from Famous Books



... chiton, the open side of which, from the girdle to the lower hem, was sewed up. A bronze statuette illustrates this way of putting it on. A young girl is about to join together on her left shoulder the chiton, which is fastened over the right shoulder by means of an agraffe. It appears clearly that the whole chiton consists of one piece. Together with the open and half-open kinds of the chiton, we also find the closed double-chiton flowing down to the feet. It was a piece of cloth considerably longer than the human body, and closed on both ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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