serge

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɜːdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɝdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒ

Borrowed from French serge, replacing an older borrowing from Middle French sarge, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica (“silk garments”).

serge (countable and uncountable, plural serges)

1. (textiles) A type of worsted cloth.
   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts

     What I noticed most strongly was his smell, of hair oil and serge and cigarette smoke, and something else, something intimate and sour and wholly, shockingly other.

2. (by metonymy) A garment made of this fabric.

• denim

serge (third-person singular simple present serges, present participle serging, simple past and past participle serged)

1. (sewing) To overlock.

From French cierge.

serge (plural serges)

1. A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies.

• Geers, Geres, Seger, egers, egres, geers, grees

• sarge (obsolete)

From Middle French sarge, from Old French sarge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica, ultimately from the Ancient Greek σηρῐκός (sērikós, “silken”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁʒ/

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serge f (plural serges)

1. twill, serge

• → English: serge

From Old French cerche (“search”).

serge

1. Alternative form of serche (“search”)

From Old French cerche (“edge, margin”).

serge

1. Alternative form of serche (“cut rock”)

From Anglo-Norman sercher.

serge

1. Alternative form of serchen (“to search”)