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avoirdupois

[ av-er-duh-poiz ]

noun

  1. Informal. body weight:

    He carries around a lot of excess avoirdupois.



avoirdupois

/ ˌævwÉ‘ËdjuËˈpwÉ‘Ë; ˌævÉ™dəˈpɔɪz /

noun

  1. a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton Abbreviationavdpavoir
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of avoirdupois1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English avoir de pois literally, “goods of weight, property of weight,†from Old French aver “goods, property,†equivalent to avoir (earlier aveir, from Latin ³ó²¹²úŧ°ù±ð “to haveâ€) + de “of†(from Latin »åŧ ) + pois (earlier peis, from Latin ±èŧ²Ô²õ³Ü³¾ “something weighed, weight,†from pendere “to weigh, weigh outâ€)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of avoirdupois1

C14: from Old French aver de peis goods of weight
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Significantly, the zoo indicated that his increases in avoirdupois do not stem from any sedentary life of lolling about the den, sampling sweet potato, bamboo and biscuits.

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By contrast, their descendants today fret about advancing avoirdupois, a real estate bubble and the high cost of space-age diagnostic scans.

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Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.

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McCormick was a member of the Jolly Fat Men’s Club, a fraternal group that celebrated avoirdupois.

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In recent decades a number of institutions have taken up the challenge of bringing before the public works whose sheer avoirdupois makes them unsuitable even for museums and galleries.

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