latchet

American  

[lach-it] / ˈlætʃ ɪt /

noun

Archaic.

1. a strap or lace used to fasten a shoe.

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latchet British  

/ ˈlætʃɪt /

noun

1. archaic a shoe fastening, such as a thong or lace

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Etymology

Origin of latchet

1300–50; Middle English lachet < Middle French, dialectal variant of lacet. See lace, -et

Example Sentences

And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Bondad sua, señor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

They were bleeding on the Mountain, the feet that brought good news, The latchet of whose shoes we were not worthy to unloose.

From Poems by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The voice of John the Baptist had been ringing through the land, proclaiming to the people that a Prophet would soon make His appearance, whose shoe latchet he was not worthy to unloose.

From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman

Then when in the grey and growing light I went down and again opened the door, lo! there with his nose against the latchet hasp was Gay Garland, my father's war-horse.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)