A small or ornamental closure or fastening; a clasp or buckle (archaic or regional).
Possibly from Old French fermail or furch (clasp), though the exact etymology is uncertain. This appears to be an obsolete or dialectal English term with unclear origins in Romance or Germanic languages.
Words like 'forcet' haunt etymological dictionaries—they appear in Middle English texts but their origins are lost to time. These orphaned words remind us that English borrowed heavily from French, but some borrowed words simply didn't survive.
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