plombagine

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plumbago, plumbaginem, as it resembled lead. Cf. also plumbago.

Noun

plombagine m (plural plombagines)

  1. (mineralogy) graphite
    −La mine de crayons, de quoi est-elle faite?
    −Avec de la plombagine, une pierre tendre qu'on scie en baguettes et qu'on enferme dans deux moitiés de cylindre de bois.     (Colette, Cl. école, 1900)

Synonyms

References

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

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