badigeon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French badigeon

Noun

badigeon (countable and uncountable, plural badigeons)

1. A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “badigeon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gabioned

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.di.ʒɔ̃/

Noun

badigeon m (plural badigeons)

1. distemper, badigeon

Related terms

• badigeonnage
• badigeonner
• badigeonneur

References

• “badigeon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.