rasure
See also: rasuré
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādere (“to scrape, shave”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)
- (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
- (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) rāsūre
Old French
Etymology
Noun
rasure oblique singular, f (oblique plural rasures, nominative singular rasure, nominative plural rasures)
Related terms
Spanish
Verb
rasure
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