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étrécissement

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
etre-cisse-ment
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The surrealist technique of cutting away parts of images to develop a new image.

Uncountable

noun

An image formed by this technique.

Countable

Etymology

From French [Term?]. See étrécir (“to make narrow”).

Origin

Usage

Inflected Forms

étrécissements (plural)

Questions

What does étrécissement mean?
The surrealist technique of cutting away parts of images to develop a new image.
Where does étrécissement come from?
It is traced to French.

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