Godet
/ɡəʊˈdeɪ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A drinking cup. obsolete
- 2 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 cf. gusset.
"A pie-shaped godet (the most common one), is usually cut with straight grain down the center of the piece of fabric, leaving bias edges on the sides."
- 3 A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.
"1991, Textile Asia, Volume 22, Issues 1-6, page 54, Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets. After the yarn guiding block a heated godet with idler roll acts as a spinning godet and thus defines spinning […] ."
Synonyms
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More examples"A pie-shaped godet (the most common one), is usually cut with straight grain down the center of the piece of fabric, leaving bias edges on the sides."
Etymology
From Middle French godet, from Dutch kodde (“piece of cylindrical wood”).