sérac
See also: serac
English
Noun
sérac (plural séracs)
- Alternative form of serac.
- 1838, A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont: Including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses (Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers), London: John Murray; Leipzig: Black and Armstrong; Paris: Galignani, →OCLC, page 368, column 2:
- Perhaps the finest part of it [the Lysjoch] is the grand sérac scenery of the Zwillinge Glacier. In August, 1876, a party of four, having missed the right track in crossing this pass when the snow was in very bad condition, were carried down in an avalanche of loose snow probably started by their own weight.
- 1863 March, W. Wigram, “[Notes and Queries.] Intersection of the Lines of Bedding of the Névé by Blue Veins of Pure Ice”, in H. B. George, editor, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume I, number I, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, published 1864, →OCLC, page 46:
- As you mount the Aletschhorn from the sleeping place, towards the lowest col from which you first overlook the Lotsch Glacier there descends, from a higher plateau, and on your right hand, a large mass of sérac.
- 1891, The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, volume XV, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, →OCLC, page 214:
- Here and elsewhere the sérac, which is something between curd and cheese, may be advantageously taken instead of butter, which is almost always bad.
Anagrams
- CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, scare
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Franco-Provençal sera or seré, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin seraceum, from serum (“whey”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sérac m (plural séracs)
Further reading
- (cheese): Sérac (fromage) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms spelled with É
- English terms spelled with ◌́
- English terms with quotations
- French terms derived from Franco-Provençal
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Cheeses