lessive
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See also: lessivé
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French lissive, leissive, from Latin lixīva, noun use of the adjective lixīvus (“made into lye”), from the phrase [aqua] lixīva by ellipsis. Compare Italian lisciva, Spanish lejía, Catalan lleixiu, Romanian leșie, Sardinian lissía.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lessive f (plural lessives)
- lye, alkaline solution; detergent
- 1753, Christophe-André Schlutter, “CXXXIII. De le fabrication des vitriols.”, in M. Hellot, transl., De la fonte des mines, des fonderies, des grillages, des fourneaux de fonte, d’affinage, de raffinage, des fabriques de vitriol, de potasse, &c., volume 2, Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant; Jacques-Noël Pissot, page 641:
- Lorsque les grandes cuves sont pleines de lessive, on en commence les cuites. La premiere n’étant que de lessive sauvage, dure vingt-six à trente heures; mais lorsqu’on on peut remplir avec de la lessive qui a déja fourni du vitriol, alors la cuite ne dure que dix-huit à vingt heures.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- laundry
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lessive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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