larmier

English

Etymology

From French larme (“tear, drop”), from Latin lacrima. See lachrymose.

Noun

larmier (plural larmiers)

1. (anatomy) A tearpit.
2. (architecture) A horizontal stringcourse for preventing rain from trickling down a wall.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “larmier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Larimer, marlier

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

larmier m (plural larmiers)

1. larmier

Further reading

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