lisse

From Old English līssian.

lisse (third-person singular simple present lisses, present participle lissing, simple past and past participle lissed)

1. (obsolete) To relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).
   • Late 14th century: And on his wey forthward thanne is he fare / In hope for to been lissed of his care. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

French lisse, from Latin licium.

lisse (countable and uncountable, plural lisses)

1. A fine sheer fabric of silk or cotton used in women's neckwear and in ruching.
2. In tapestry, the threads of the warp taken together.

• isles, siles, sisel

• IPA^(key): /lis/

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• Homophones: lice, lices, lis, lissent, lisses, lys

Probably from lisser.

lisse (plural lisses)

1. smooth

lisse

1. first-person singular present indicative of lisser
2. third-person singular present indicative of lisser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of lisser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of lisser
5. second-person singular imperative of lisser

• isles, lises, siles

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

lisse

1. smooth

lisse (masculine and feminine, plural lisses)

1. smooth

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