rasure
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
Definition of rasure
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (archaic, countable, uncountable)Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
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noun
- (archaic, countable, uncountable)Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable)Obliteration, destruction.
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
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Etymology
From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādō (“to scrape, shave”).
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