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Gem facet
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culet
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n. 1 A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks. 2 A small, flat face at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
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In gemology , a culet is a flat face on the bottom of a gemstone . During the 14th century, after the adoption of the table cut , a further facet was added to the bottom of the cut parallel to the surface of the table. The term used for these bottom facets ...
Usage examples of culet.
I had rather mount guard, for a week, in steel helmet and corselet, with breast, back, culet, gorget, tasses, sword, musket and bandoliers, in the hottest sun that ever roasted a blackamoor, or stand up to my knees, six months, in snow, without my mandilion, than lie a day longer in that ace--I mean that kennel of a lock-up.
Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets throrow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere he lost his head, as the rest had done.