chevelure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French chevelure (“head of hair”).
Noun
chevelure (plural chevelures)
- The nebulous part of a comet.
- Sir. W. Hershel
- the nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star
- Sir. W. Hershel
- A head of hair.
- A periwig.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “chevelure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
From Old French chevel (Modern French cheveu) + -ure. Compare Occitan cabeladura.
Pronunciation
Noun
chevelure f (plural chevelures)
Descendants
- → Russian: шевелю́ра (ševeljúra)
Further reading
- “chevelure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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