secretage

English

Etymology

French

Noun

secretage (uncountable)

1. A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.
   • 1836, Andrew Ure, The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain:

     This defect in the straight filaments he supposed to be removed by secretage, or the application of a solution of nitrate of mercury to the tips of the fur on the skin , which caused these to curl

References

• “secretage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.