reglet

English

Etymology

From French réglet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡlɪt/

Noun

reglet (plural reglets)

1. (printing) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter. [from 17th c.]
   • 1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:

     The footsticks may be a trifle shorter than the width of two pages and the gutter; for as there should always be a line of quadrats, or a reglet cut to measure, at the foot of each page, the footstick may be a pica shorter without danger, on this account, of any thing falling out, when the form is lifted and it thus prevents the side and foot sticks from binding when locked up.

2. (architecture) A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. [from 17th c.]
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 62:

     the cone of light pans over […] the two rag throw-rugs' ovals on the hardwood floor, black lines of baseboards' reglets […]

Derived terms

• reglet plane

Anagrams

• Gretel

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

reglet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of regeln

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French réglet.

Noun

reglet n (plural reglete)

1. reglet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reglet	regletul		reglete	regletele
genitive-dative	reglet	regletului		reglete	regletelor
vocative	regletule			regletelor