Meanings
nounstrigment (plural strigments)
plural strigments
- obsoletepluralusuallyscraping, or something which is scraped off (e.g. off the skin)
the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinstrigmentum
- Englishstrigment
Latin strigmentum.
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