souple

English

Etymology 1

From a UK dialect form of supple.

Adjective

souple (not comparable)

  1. Of raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.

Etymology 2

Noun

souple (plural souples)

  1. The part of a flail that strikes the grain.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for souple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Latin supplex.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /supl/
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Adjective

souple (plural souples)

  1. supple
  2. yielding

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology

Old French souple and Anglo-Norman souple, from Latin supplex

Adjective

souple

  1. flexible; supple
    • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
      His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.
      His boots flexible, his horse in a fine condition

Descendants

Old French

Noun

souple m (oblique and nominative feminine singular souple)

  1. supple (which bends readily)
    • circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde
      keue souple
      Supple tail
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