appui
English
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editEtymology
editFrom French appui, from Latin ad + podium (“foothold”).
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editNoun
editappui (plural appuis or appuies)
- (obsolete) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVII.] CHAP. XXIII. Of Trees ranged in rewes for to support Vines.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 538:
- If a Vine bee to climbe trees that are of any great height, there would be staies and appuies set to it, wherupon it may take hold
- (horse-riding, obsolete) The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle.
- Clipping of point d'appui.
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editVerb
editappui (third-person singular simple present appuis, present participle appuiing, simple past and past participle appuied)
- (transitive, military) To support, e.g. by posting troops.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “appui”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
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editNoun
editappui m (plural appuis)
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editFurther reading
edit- “appui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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