˜yÐÄvlog

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souple

[ suhp-uhl ]

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of souple1

1885–90; short for French soie souple supple silk
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He remembers Charles Munch, a jury member when he won the Besancon conducting competition in France 1959, inviting him to Tanglewood and praising his “La Mer†as “souple.â€

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To impart both movement and structured texture, he relied on a combination of Leonor Greyl products: Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice, Voluforme and Laque Souple.

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Souple, sÅÅp′l, adj. a provincial form of supple—denoting raw silk deprived of its silk-glue.

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On remarque chez lui une imagination souple et vive, une constante aspiration � la force, � la noblesse, � la majest�.

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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."

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