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picots

Variant of picot

noun pl. picots

any of a number of small, threadlike loops forming an ornamental edging on lace, ribbon, etc.

Origin: Fr < OFr, dim. of pic, a point: see pike

transitive verb, intransitive verb picoted , picoting

to edge with such loops

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