culet

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Definition of culet in English English dictionary

A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks

The Turk prosecuted his advantage to the uttermost of his power; yet the other not onely avoided the Turkes violence, but having drawne his Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets thorow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, as the rest had done.

A small, flat face at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone

> A gemstone's smallest facet parallel to the girdle where all pavilion facets converge

Culet size (bottom point of diamond) described as, None for perfect, Very Small and Small in most cases

Hooped plate armor of horizontal lames for the buttocks

plate armor covering the buttocks

The smallest facet at the bottom of the diamond

The facet at the tip of the pavilion of a gemstone The culets of older, European-cut diamonds can be seen through the table of the diamond and appear as round, glassy disks The preferred culet is visible only as a tiny focal point where the facets of the pavilion converge See also Pavilion

The point at the bottom of the diamond

The bottom point of a diamond

Hyphenation

cu·let

Etymology

[ 'kyü-l&t, 'k&-l&a ] (noun.) 1678. From Old French culet, diminutive of cul (“bottom”), itself from Latin culus (“arse”).