Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ornament for the leg, of the same nature as the anklet.

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Examples

  • But it is after getting one foot in, and while waving the other around for the other leglet, -- that leglet which is turned inside out, -- that the real agony commences.

    They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877

  • I hope you not leglet, 'said Mr Sung, indignation, as any emotion did, causing acute confusion in the pronunciation of liquids.

    The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

  • [125] A mountain-plant whose stem has a thin, glossy, black sheath, that is stripped off and used in twisting the decorative leglet called tikus.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • A pair of sandals, a leglet of goat's hair, a heavy battle-axe with a rhinoceros-horn handle, a round iron shield covered with white ox-hide, and the regulation number of _tollas_, or throwing-knives, made up his equipment, to which, however, he added his revolver.

    King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "'Art thou still a chief, Wambe? or does another take thy place and power, and say, Lord, what doest thou there? and what is that slave's leglet upon thy knee?

    Maiwa's Revenge Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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