suillage
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French souillage, soillage, from souiller, soiller. See soil (“to stain”), and compare sullage.
Noun
[edit]suillage (usually uncountable, plural suillages)
- (obsolete) A drain or collection of filth.
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
- touching Conducts for the Suillage and other necessities of the House
References
[edit]- “suillage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.