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Etymology

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From Latin pumicatus, past participle of pumicare (to pumicate), from pumex. See pumice.

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pumicate (third-person singular simple present pumicates, present participle pumicating, simple past and past participle pumicated)

  1. (transitive) To make smooth with pumice.
    • 1925, Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Fruitfulness, page 8:
      It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards.

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