souple

American  

[suhp-uhl] / ˈsʌp əl /

noun

1. silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.

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Etymology

Origin of souple

1885–90; short for French soie souple supple silk

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Example Sentences

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souple

Flaundrische, Flemish. sothly, truly. flotynge, fluting, playing. souple, pliant. flour-de-lys, fleur-de-lis. sovereyn, excellent. forster, forester. sowning, boasting. for-pyned, much wasted. steepe, bright. frere, friar.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

George Sand has somewhere a charming passage about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France—"son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et courtes."

From A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell

George Sand's country lies a little to the southward of Touraine, and Berry, too, as the authoress herself has said, has a climate "souple et chaud, avec pluie abondant et courte."

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

That done, he fleaeth it, and taweth the skinne betwixte his handes, vntill it become very souple and soft and kiepeth it for a hande kercher.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

Now safe the stately sawmont sail, And trouts be-dropp’d wi’ crimson hail, And eels weel ken’d for souple tail, And geds for greed, Since dark in death’s fish-creel we wail Tam Samson dead.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

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