godets

Noun

godet (plural godets)

1. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
2. A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset.
   • A pie-shaped godet (the most common one), is usually cut with straight grain down the center of the piece of fabric, leaving bias edges on the sides.1975, The Vogue Sewing Book, page 240
3. A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.
   • Primary air entanglement is applied to give the yarn better cohesion and thus achieve a smoother, quieter thread path over the godets.
     After the yarn guiding block a heated godet with idler roll acts as a spinning godet and thus defines spinning […] .1991, Textile Asia, Volume 22, Issues 1-6, page 54