serge
pronunciation
How to pronounce serge in British English:
UK [sɜ:dʒ]
How to pronounce serge in American English:
US [sɜrdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a twilled woolen fabric
Word Origin
- serge
- serge: [14] The textile term serge is first cousin to silk. It comes via Old French sarge from *sārica, a Vulgar Latin alteration of Latin sērica. This was short for lāna sērica, which meant literally ‘wool of the Seres’. Seres was a name given to a people living in what we would now call China, and it is also the ultimate source of the word silk.=> silk
- serge (n.)
- type of strong, twilled fabric used for coats, etc., late 14c., from Old French serge (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *sarica, in Medieval Latin "cloth of wool mixed with silk or linen," from Latin serica (vestis) "silken (garment)," from serica, from Greek serike, fem. of serikos "silken" (see silk). The French word is the source of German sarsche, Danish sarge, etc. Also as a verb. Related: Serger.
Example
- 1. Le figaro is owned by a defence baron , serge dassault .
- 2. Then serge said , " if you look through these frames , you 'll see the world differently . "
- 3. Backed by the french producer serge silberman , he was free at last to indulge his fancies , and " discreet charm " is liberated from any commercial or narrative requirement .
- 4. Serge faguet , one of ostrovok 's founders , says that his company learned by watching ctrip , a chinese online travel company , whose customers make half of their bookings by phone .
- 5. On meeting serge pun in his office in central yangon , it is hard to imagine that one of myanmar 's most successful tycoons was once a penniless migrant in hong kong , delivering ship supplies from a small sampan and selling air sanitisers for a pitiful commission .