epaulet

Etymology

From French épaulette, from épaule (“shoulder”) + -ette (diminutive).

noun

  1. Alternative form of epaulette (“shoulder decoration on a uniform; tegula”)
    The most proxlmal plate, at the extreme base of the costal margin, is the tegula (costal plate, epaulet)... 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, page 28

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