Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks. · A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
From Middle French culet, diminutive of cul (“bottom”), from Latin culus (“arse”).
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