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chiffon.

rag

7 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃi.fɔ̃/

  1. rag

    masculine
    parler chiffons, causer chiffons
    poupée de chiffon

  2. scrap

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From chiffe + -on. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip.

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