sérac

See also: serac

English

Noun

sérac (plural séracs)

1. Alternative form of serac.
   • 1838, A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont: Including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses (Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers), London: John Murray; Leipzig: Black and Armstrong; Paris: Galignani, →OCLC, page 368, column 2:

     Perhaps the finest part of it [the Lysjoch] is the grand sérac scenery of the Zwillinge Glacier. In August, 1876, a party of four, having missed the right track in crossing this pass when the snow was in very bad condition, were carried down in an avalanche of loose snow probably started by their own weight.

   • 1863 March, W. Wigram, “[Notes and Queries.] Intersection of the Lines of Bedding of the Névé by Blue Veins of Pure Ice”, in H. B. George, editor, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume I, number I, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, published 1864, →OCLC, page 46:

     As you mount the Aletschhorn from the sleeping place, towards the lowest col from which you first overlook the Lotsch Glacier there descends, from a higher plateau, and on your right hand, a large mass of sérac.

   • 1891, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume XV, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 214:

     Here and elsewhere the sérac, which is something between curd and cheese, may be advantageously taken instead of butter, which is almost always bad.

Anagrams

• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, scare

French

Etymology

From Franco-Provençal sera or seré, from Latin seraceum, from serum (“whey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ʁak/

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Noun

sérac m (plural séracs)

1. a kind of cheese
2. a serac, a sharp tower of ice formed by intersecting crevasses of a glacier

Further reading

• “sérac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• (cheese): Sérac (fromage) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr