Noun: languet
| Singular | languet |
| Plural | languets |
Sample Sentences
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If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here. [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
Nouns inflected like languet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua. See: Latin Nouns '
lingua'.