friable
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin friābilis, from friō (“‘crumble’”).
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[edit] Adjective
friable
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- 1977: Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago. — Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
- (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
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[edit] Translations
easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder
loose and large-grained in consistency
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[edit] References
- friable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- friable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
