mouchette
[ moo-shet ]
/ muˈʃɛt /
noun Architecture.
a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
Origin of mouchette
1925–30; < French: orig., the fillet below an ovolo, projecting part of a cornice; hence, with the common sense “what protrudes,” probably derivative of
moucher to cut or knock off (something protruding) (see
-ette), apparently extended sense of
moucher to wipe (a person's) nose < Vulgar Latin
*muccāre, derivative of Latin
muccus, mūcus
mucus