oillet
English
An oillet seen from the rear
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French œillet, from œil (“eye”), from Latin oculum, accusative singular of oculus.
Noun
oillet (plural oillets)
- (medieval architecture) A round hole or circle with which an opening for an arrowslit terminates.
- 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 244:
- Entertaining myself with such reflections as these, I had walked perhaps half a league (halting from time to time to spy out both public halls and private apartments through the oillets the place provided) when I stumbled over the body of an assassin.
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