Definition of Godet

1. Noun. (sewing) A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge. ¹

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Definition of Godet

1. insert of cloth in a seam [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Godet

goddesse
goddesses
goddesship
goddesships
goddesshood
goddesshoods
goddesslike
goddessship
goddessships
godding
goddist
gode-year
godelich
godemiche
godemiches
godet (current term)
godetia
godetias
godets
godfather
godfathered
godfatherhood
godfathering
godfatherless
godfatherlike
godfatherly
godfathers
godfearing
godforsaken
godforsakenly

Literary usage of Godet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"godet ON FIRST CORINTHIANS.*—All students of the New Testament who would use ... We esteem godet second to no other commentator when the whole purpose and ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"godet in reply to attacks on the Christian Faith in Neuchatel, where he resides. ... By Professor F. godet, author of Commentaries on St. Luke, etc., etc. ..."

3. The Religious Condition of Christendom: Described in a Series of Papers by Evangelical Alliance Conference, John Murray Mitchell (1880)
"F. godet. 168 pain and shame, how dear to us shall bo our Gospel, which crushes man only to lift him up above all understanding and all desert. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"... and French Switzerland conservatism has been the keynote of the Protestant scholars Pressensé and godet; a rationalizing evolutionism that of Sabatier. ..."

5. Modern Criticism Considered in Its Relation to the Fourth Gospel by Henry William Watkins (1890)
"godet, Dr. Frederic godet, professor at Neuchatel, the 1812- pupil of Neander, and the tutor of the late Emperor of Germany from 1838 to 1844, published the ..."

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