enlacement

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English

Etymology

From enlace +‎ -ment, or from French?

Noun

enlacement (countable and uncountable, plural enlacements)

  1. The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding with lace or as if with a lace.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 181:
      Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

enlacement m (plural enlacements)

  1. linking number

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