enlacement
English edit
Etymology edit
enlace + -ment, or from French?
Noun edit
enlacement (countable and uncountable, plural enlacements)
- The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding with lace or as if with a lace.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 181:
- Her throat was contracted, her breasts strove against the enlacement of her stays, she was about to weep.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
enlacement m (plural enlacements)
Further reading edit
- “enlacement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.