souple

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From a UK dialect form of supple.

Adjective[edit]

souple (not comparable)

  1. Of raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

souple (plural souples)

  1. The part of a flail that strikes the grain.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Souple”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin supplex.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /supl/
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Adjective[edit]

souple (plural souples)

  1. supple
  2. yielding
  3. flexible

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Middle English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old French souple and Anglo-Norman souple, from Latin supplex

Adjective[edit]

souple

  1. flexible; supple
    • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
      His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.
      His boots flexible, his horse in a fine condition

Descendants[edit]

  • → English: supple

Old French[edit]

Noun[edit]

souple m (oblique and nominative feminine singular souple)

  1. supple (which bends readily)
    • circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde
      keue souple
      Supple tail
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