aiguillette
Sign in to savethumb|right|Commissioned officers (front row) and non-commissioned officers (second row) of the Household Cavalry in full dress wearing aiguillettes thumb|right|Bundle of 20 braided gold and silver laces with stamped brass tags or aiglets, first half of the 17th century
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thumb|right|Commissioned officers (front row) and non-commissioned officers (second row) of the Household Cavalry in full dress wearing aiguillettes thumb|right|Bundle of 20 braided gold and silver laces with stamped brass tags or aiglets, first half of the 17th century
An aiguillette (, from aiguille, "needle"), also spelled ', or , is a cord with metal tips or lace tags', or the decorative tip itself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “aiguillette” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.