rasure
See also: rasuré
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādere (“to scrape, shave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪʒə/
Noun
rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)
- (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
- (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Latin
Old French
Spanish
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative
Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.