pumice
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman and Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”). Doublet of pounce.
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Noun[edit]
pumice (countable and uncountable, plural pumices)
- A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10:
- The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.
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pumice
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Verb[edit]
pumice (third-person singular simple present pumices, present participle pumicing, simple past and past participle pumiced)
- (transitive) To abrade or roughen with pumice.
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Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
pūmice
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