aiglet

plural aiglets · alternative aglet · alternative aiguillette · alternative aygulet

1. A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.

   Buckles and agglettes at vnwares, ſhall race his bowe, a thinge both euill for the fight, & perillous for freatinge.

   1545, Roger Ascham, “The Seconde Booke”, in Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions of Shooting […], [new] edition, London: […] Thomas Marshe, published 1571, →OCLC, folio 38, recto

2. An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.

   a silken Camus […] Which all aboue besprinckled was throughout, / With golden aygulets, that glistred bright

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

3. The cover at the tip of a shoelace, to prevent it from fraying.

   The aiglet of the shoelace passes through each grommet.