A ring or eyelet of metal, rope, or rubber used to reinforce a hole or provide a fastening point.
From French 'gourmet' (originally meaning a sauce-maker, then refined/small objects), or possibly from the Old French meaning 'little man.' Used in nautical and practical contexts since at least the 1600s.
Grommets (the modern spelling variant) are everywhere in modern life—eyelets on tarps, shoelaces, drum kits—yet the word's journey from possible French origins to universal hardware shows how practical vocabulary travels across languages.
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