decate

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English

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Etymology

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From French décatir ("to remove the cati from"), from catir.

Verb

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decate (third-person singular simple present decates, present participle decating, simple past and past participle decated)

  1. To decatize (steam fabric).
    • 1955, Modern Textiles Magazine:
      It is therefore important to decate only very slightly.
    • 1956, John V. Haggard, Manufacture of Clothing, 1945-53, page 186:
      The Commanding General wished to know whether cloth going into storage should ever be decated. The opinion of the technologist was that , if the cloth was decated in the presence of DDT, the mothicide would steam-distill out []
    • 2002, Marypaul Yates, Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 159:
      Next it will be [] neatly rolled, and finally pressed or decated (pressed with steam). Each of these processes requires several hours and specific equipment.

Galician

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Verb

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decate

  1. inflection of decatar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative