rasure
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rasure
< Middle French < Late Latin rāsūra, equivalent to Latin rās ( us ) (past participle of rādere to scratch, scrape; cf. rasorial, raze) + -ūra -ure
Example Sentences
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Si in fusion; zi in brazier; z in azure; and s in rasure.
From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
A few summers ago, I was watching, with more than usual emotion, the rasure of a great edifice at a corner of Hanover Square.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Rā′sion, a scraping: rasure; Rā′sure, act of scraping, shaving, or erasing: obliterating: an erasure.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
There were two reasons why this rasure especially affected me.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
The King sent to the Lords more peremptoryly, and they, with much grumbling, agreed to the rasure.
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
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