filasse

Borrowed from French filasse.

filasse

1. Vegetable fiber, such as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.

• falsies

fil +‎ -asse.

filasse f (plural filasses)

1. tow, oakum, hards
2. (by metonymy) its distinctive bleak color
3. something of that color, especially blond hair
4. (by extension) a yellowish-blond haired person; a towhead

See filer.

filasse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of filer

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “filasse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

filasse

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of filare