plural attelets
: a small, ornamental metal skewer used as decoration when serving food
Each pyramid of sandwiches is surmounted by a silver attelet run through a small paper or silk pennon, and bearing the name of the sandwich in silver or gold letters.—Janet McKenzie Hill, The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, June–July 1901
Fluted lemon and truffle rounds are strung along a decorative attelet piercing the bird's rump.—Gael Greene, New York Magazine, 31 July 1972
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