secretage
English
Etymology
French
Noun
secretage (uncountable)
- A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
- 1836, Andrew Ure, The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain:
- This defect in the straight filaments he supposed to be removed by secretage, or the application of a solution of nitrate of mercury to the tips of the fur on the skin , which caused these to curl
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References
- secretage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913