Etymology

semé

Today it means: Sprinkled, sown, strewn: said of a field or charge when strewn with small (identical) charges. Full definition →

French semé
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  1. French · borrowed fromsemé“sown”
  2. English todaysemé

From French semé (“sown”). Doublet of seminate and semined.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.