secateurs

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English

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secateurs

Etymology

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Borrowed from French sécateurs, plural of sécateur, from Latin secō +‎ -ateur.

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secateurs pl (plural only)

  1. (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand) Small, handheld pruning shears.
    • 2023 August 5, Diarmuid Gavin, “It's time to give my garden a makeover”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 28:
      To start with, I'm going to arm myself with a saw, shears and secateurs to radically prune some of what's there.

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  • The Chambers Dictionary, 1998. →ISBN

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