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| FIBULA | |
| Form: Greek perone. | |
| A clasp for fastening garments, resembling our brooches or safety-Pins. It consisted of a hoop and a needle, sometimes elastic, sometimes fixed by a joint. Some fibuloe were in the shape of buckles. (See illustrations.) | |
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| FIBULAe. (Girvaud de la Vincello, Arts et Metiers, pl. xii, xiii.) |
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