gusset

Etymology
From, , from ,.

Noun

 * 1) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
 * 2) A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
 * 3)  A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
 * 4)  An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
 * 5)  A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.

Usage notes

 * Early heraldic writers (, The Accidens of Armory, 1576;, A Display of Heraldrie, 1611) said the gusset was an abatement or mark of dishonor coming in from the side of the shield like a straight-edged heraldic , and blazoned the image above on a field gules, two gussets argent; the mark does not seem to be found in use in medieval English arms. In modern English heraldry, and in French (and German, etc.) arms where it is used, the gusset (🇨🇬) is instead the central red -like mark, and the image is blazoned on a field argent, a gusset gules.

Derived terms

 * gusset plate

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dhivehi: ކައް
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ingrian: verka
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 거셋, 마찌,
 * Ottoman Turkish: صیغزه
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish : escudete


 * German: Kettengeflechtsegment


 * Bulgarian: ъглова плоча
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kiilalevy,
 * French:
 * German: Eckblech, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: углово́е соедине́ние,
 * Spanish:


 * French:
 * Italian:


 * French:
 * German:

Verb

 * 1)  To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.