Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small embroidered loop used in a series to form an ornamental edging on lace or fabric.
  • transitive verb To trim with picots.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small loop forming part of an ornamental edging, but larger than the pearl and thicker, consisting of a thread upon which other thread has been wound, or to which small stitches or knots have been added.
  • noun The front or outer edge of a flounce or border, as of lace.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, from pic, point, from piquer, to prick; see pique.]

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Examples

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  • I don't like the picot bind off and will probably make the next one without it and then decide how to make the third glove. by cavalaxis at

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  • You taught me two things today: the name of the edge picot and that Duncan is an Orange Norwegian Forest Cat!

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  • I decided to do a folded hem instead of the garter stitch and that took a bit of fiddling to get right note to self: picot hems and summer tweed don't mix.

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  • Love the socks -- what a great color combo, and the picot edge is lovely!

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  • Hey Steph - what instructions do you use for your picot?

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  • I decided to do a folded hem instead of the garter stitch and that took a bit of fiddling to get right note to self: picot hems and summer tweed don't mix.

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