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Date: 1600-1700
Origin: From early French gormette 'one of the leather bands around a horse's head'

grommet

 noun
     
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grom‧met [countable]
1TD a small metal ring that is used around a hole in cloth or leather to make it stronger
2MH British English a small piece of plastic that a doctor puts into a child's ear in order to remove liquid from it
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