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Old French
Etymology
grave + -ele.
Noun
gravele oblique singular, f (oblique plural graveles, nominative singular gravele, nominative plural graveles)
- gravel (chips of stone used to cover a surface)
- (medicine) calculus (small stone-like concretion)
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 202 of this essay:Les signes que pierre s’engendre c’est quant l’orine est trouble, espesse avec plusieurs gravelles- The signs of a stone forming, it's when the urine is murky and thick with several small calculi
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gravele)