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noun
- a tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
- a narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel
- a piece of metal on a sword-hilt which overhangs the scabbard
- a flat plate in the pipe of an organ
- 1973: If there is music for this it"s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater"itself broken, crusted with tides"whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- (archaic) a narrow tongue of land
- (zoology) a tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates
Etymology: Old French languete (modern languette), diminutive of langue "tongue", from Latin lingua.
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