gypse
See also: gypsé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gypse.
Noun
gypse
- Obsolete form of gypsum.
- 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East:
- The soil of Cyprus is for the most part rocky; there are in it many entire hills of talc or gypse […]
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Anagrams
- gypes
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
gypse m (plural gypses)
- (mineralogy) gypsum
Verb
gypse
- inflection of gypser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “gypse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.