gypse

See also: gypsé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gypse.

Noun

gypse

1. 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 […]

Anagrams

• gypes

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

gypse m (plural gypses)

1. (mineralogy) gypsum

Verb

gypse

1. inflection of gypser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “gypse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.