adragant

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English

Etymology

From French, a corruption of tragacanth. Doublet of tragacanth.

Noun

adragant (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Gum tragacanth.
    • 1741, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary:
      From the second Sort Monsieur Tournefort says, the Gum Adragant or Dragon is produced in Crete; of which he gives the following Relation in his Voyage to the Levant :
      “We had (says he) the Satisfaction
      “of fully observing the Gum
      Adragant   []
    • 1800, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, translated by W. Nicholson, Elements of Chemistry ... Translated from the French. The third edition, page 39:
      3. Gum adragant.—The gum adragant [] flows from the adragant of Crete, a small shrub []
    • 1795, American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, One Thousand Valuable Secrets, in the Elegant and Useful Arts: Collected from the Practice of the Best Artists and Containing an Account of the Various Methods, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
      Make a color composed of brown red, and a little flat, or Venetian lake, previously grinded with gum adragant. Then, with a largish brush, take of that color and asperse your oiled marble with it, by striking the handle of the brush on your wrist, ...

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Variant form of tragacant.

Noun

adragant m (plural adragants)

  1. (obsolete) tragacanth (gum)
    Synonym: tragacant

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adragant m (plural adragants)

  1. tragacanth (gum)

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adragant.

Noun

adragant n (uncountable)

  1. tragacanth

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative adragant adragantul
genitive-dative adragant adragantului
vocative adragantule