enlacement

English

Etymology

enlace +‎ -ment, or from French?

Noun

enlacement (countable and uncountable, plural enlacements)

1. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding with lace or as if with a lace.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 181:

     Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

enlacement m (plural enlacements)

1. linking number

Further reading

• “enlacement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.