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Fagoting

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fag⋅ot⋅ing

  [fag-uh-ting]
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–noun
an openwork decoration of fabric in which thread is drawn in crisscross stitches across an open seam.
Also, British, fag⋅got⋅ing.

Origin:
1880–85; fagot + -ing 1

fag⋅ot

  [fag-uht]
–noun
1. a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
2. a bundle; bunch.
3. a bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, hammered, or rolled together at high temperature.
4. bouquet garni.
–verb (used with object)
5. to bind or make into a fagot.
6. to ornament with fagoting.
Also, British, faggot.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF, OF; of obscure orig.

Related forms:
fag⋅ot⋅er, noun
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fag·ot also fag·got   (fāg'ət)   
n.  

  1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.

  2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.

tr.v.   fag·ot·ed also fag·got·ed, fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing, fag·ots also fag·gots

  1. To bind into a fagot; bundle.

  2. To decorate with fagoting.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, possibly from Vulgar Latin *facus, from Greek phakelos, bundle.]
fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing   (fāg'ə-tĭng)   
n.  

  1. A method of decorating cloth by pulling out horizontal threads and tying the remaining vertical threads into hourglass-shaped bunches.

  2. A method of joining hemmed edges by crisscrossing thread over an open seam.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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