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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OILLETS (from an O. Fr. diminutive of tail, See also:eye, in Mod. Fr. See also:millet; other See also:English variants are oylets, eyelets, or eyelet-holes)  , the architectural See also:term given to the arrow slits in the walls of See also:medieval fortifications, but more strictly applied to the roundhole or circle with which the openings terminate . The same term is applied to the small circles inserted in the See also:tracery-See also:head of the windows of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, sometimes varied with trefoils and quatrefoils .

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