culet/ˈkju.lɪt/EtymologyFrom Middle French culet, diminutive of cul (“bottom”), from Latin culus (“arse”).culet means A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.“The Turk prosecuted his advantage to the uttermost of his power; yet the other[…]not onely avoided the Turkes violence, but having drawne his Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets thorow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, as the rest had done.”A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.“1999, John W. Kenney, III, 7. Pressure Effects on Emissive Materials, D. Max Roundhill, John P. Fackler Jr. (editors), Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Compounds, Plenum Press, page 234, The common diamond cut for high pressure work is the modified brilliant cut (see Fig. 1) in which the point of a brilliant cut diamond (i.e., the type of diamond commonly found in an engagement ring) is lopp”