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plag.

a cut-out sod, an excavated flat piece of top soil grown with grasses or heath; in the past used as fuel or roof covering

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/plɑx/
  1. a cut-out sod, an excavated flat piece of top soil grown with grasses or heath; in the past used as fuel or roof covering

    feminine
  2. a flat, excavated piece of peat

    feminine
  3. a cloth, a rag

    archaic · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch plagge (“cloth, rag; sod”). Of uncertain ultimate origin: perhaps a pre-Germanic (but Indo-European) substrate in which the p- has not undergone Grimm's law; compare Latvian plēst (“to tear off”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *flahaną (“to skin”). Related to Swedish plagg.

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