Definition of "latchet" [latch•et]

• A leather thong or strap used to fasten a shoe or sandal on the foot. (noun)

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• "The latchet was the thong by which the sandal was bound on the foot."
• "The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of"
• "None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:"