Etymology

under erasure

Today it means: Of a piece of text, written and struck through; hence, figuratively in some sense both present and absent. Full definition →

French sous
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The story

  1. French · derived fromsous
  2. English todayunder erasure

Perhaps a calque of French sous rature

Words from the same roots

Frenchsous all →

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