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Webster 1913 Edition
Souple
Sou′ple
,Noun.
That part of a flail which strikes the grain.
Knight.
Definition 2024
souple
souple
English
Noun
souple (plural souples)
- The part of a flail that strikes the grain.
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Middle English
Adjective
souple
- flexible; supple
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.
- His boots flexible, his horse in a fine condition
- His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
Descendants
- English: supple (borrowed)
Old French
Noun
souple m (oblique and nominative feminine singular souple)
- supple (which bends readily)
- circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde
- keue souple
- Supple tail
- keue souple
- circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde