orcanette
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- orcanète f
Etymology
[edit]From orcanet (“bugloss”) + -ette (a feminizing suffix), an orthographic variant of the Old French arquenet (m), the diminutive form of Old French arquin (m), alcanne (“antimony”). Compare the Spanish alcana.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]orcanette f (plural orcanettes)
- bugloss, alkanet
- 1924, Marcel Hégelbacher, La Parfumerie et la Savonnerie, page 131:
- La coloration des crayons était autrefois presque uniquement obtenue avec le racine d’orcanette restant, au bain-marie, en contact avec la matière grasse.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “orcanette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.