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English
Etymology
From enlace + -ment, or from French?
Noun
enlacement (countable and uncountable, plural enlacements)
- 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
Noun
enlacement m (plural enlacements)
- linking number
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