OILLETS (from an O. Fr. diminutive of tail,

See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, in Mod. Fr.

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• MILLET (Fr. millet; Ital. miglietto, diminutive of miglio= Lat. mille, a thousand, in allusion to its fertility)
• MILLET (or MILE), JEAN FRANCOIS (c. 1642–1679)
• MILLET, FRANCIS DAVIS (1846- )
• MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS (1814–1875)

millet; other

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• ENGLISH

English variants are oylets, eyelets, or eyelet-holes)  , the architectural term given to the arrow slits in the walls of 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 tracery-head of the windows of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, sometimes varied with trefoils and quatrefoils .