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Noun

epaulet (plural epaulets)

  • Alternative form of epaulette (“shoulder decoration on a uniform; tegula”).
    • ✤ The most proxlmal plate, at the extreme base of the costal margin, is the tegula (costal plate, epaulet)…1

Etymology

From French épaulette, from épaule (“shoulder”) +‎ -ette (diminutive).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɛpəlɛt/, /ˌɛpəˈlɛt/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 28: ↩

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