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parsemé

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See also: parseme and parsème

English

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Etymology

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From French parsemé.

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Adjective

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parsemé (comparative more parsemé, superlative most parsemé)

  1. (now rare, italicized) Sprinkled, scattered (usually with something).
    • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 120:
      Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parsemé with pearls.

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French

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Participle

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parsemé (feminine parsemée, masculine plural parsemés, feminine plural parsemées)

  1. past participle of parsemer

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