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sceau

sceau

French

Noun

sceau m (plural sceaux)

  1. seal (pattern; design)

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French seel. The change in spelling from seau to sceau is unexplained, although it may be to disambiguate with seau (bucket)[1].

Noun

sceau m (plural sceaulx)

  1. seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)

Descendants

References

  • sceau on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
  1. sceau” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowing from French sceau.

Noun

sceau m (plural sceaus)

  1. (Guernsey) seal

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