filasse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
filasse
- Vegetable fiber, such as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
filasse f (plural filasses)
- tow, oakum, hards
- (by metonymy) its distinctive bleak color
- something of that color, especially blond hair
- (by extension) a yellowish-blond-haired person; a towhead
Etymology 2[edit]
See filer.
Verb[edit]
filasse
References[edit]
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading[edit]
- “filasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
filasse
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
filasse
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- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals
- French terms suffixed with -asse
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms