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latch·et

 (lăch′ĭt)
n.
A leather thong or strap used to fasten a shoe or sandal on the foot.

[Middle English lachet, from Old French lacet, lachet, from lace, lace; see lace.]
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latchet

(ˈlætʃɪt)
n
(Clothing & Fashion) archaic a shoe fastening, such as a thong or lace
[C14: from Old French lachet, from las lace]
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Noun1.latchet - a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot
strap - an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
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The night will soon fall; this forest is most wild and lonely; strange noises are often heard therein after sunset; wolves haunt these glades, and Danish warriors infest the country; worse things are talked of; you might chance to hear, as it were, a child cry, and on opening the door to afford it succour, a greet black bull, or a shadowy goblin dog, might rush over the threshold; or, more awful still, if something flapped, as with wings, against the lattice, and then a raven or a white dove flew in and settled on the hearth, such a visitor would be a sure sign of misfortune to the house; therefore, heed my advice, and lift the latchet for nothing.
"Verily, it would have been a satire on Christianity had Shakespeare meant to represent it in the persons who are enemies of Shylock, and who are hardly worthy to unloose the latchets of his shoes." In numerous permutations and variations, this view has become the standard gravamen in the salvagers' case against the Christians.
Another satire on Buckingham represents him as disdainfully urging the House of Commons to deal only with "'common matters'" "since 'Coblers their latchets ought not to transcend'" (136).