Spot the Frippet: bracket.

 Well, here's a bracket: 

photo by Fructibus

(they aren't hard to spot, are they?)

Here's another kind:

[the brackets are the bits that are stuck to the teeth]

and here's another:

{bracket fungus, photo by Trish Steel}

Brackets can be quite fancy things:

photo by Herzi Pinki

but the real reason for The Word Den featuring the word bracket is that its derivation is hilarious.

Spot the Frippet: bracket. This word comes from the Old French braguette, which means codpiece. Bragues are breeches, from the Old Provençal braga, and before that from the Latin brāca.