rasure
See also: rasuré
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādere (“to scrape, shave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪʒə/
Noun
rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)
- (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
- (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Anagrams
- Urreas
Latin
Participle
rāsūre
- vocative masculine singular of rāsūrus
Old French
Etymology
From Latin rasura.
Noun
rasure f (oblique plural rasures, nominative singular rasure, nominative plural rasures)
- scrapings
Related terms
- raser
- rere
- res
Spanish
Verb
rasure
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rasurar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rasurar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rasurar.