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puissance
English
Alternative forms
- Puissance (show jumping)
Etymology
From Middle English puissaunce, from Anglo-Norman puissance, pusaunce, and other forms, from Old French puissant (“powerful”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pju??.s(?)ns/, /?pw?-/
- Hyphenation: puis?sance
Noun
puissance (countable and uncountable, plural puissances)
- Power, might or potency.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs. Vol. IV, London: Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-48128-1; republished London: Picador, 2007, ISBN 978-0-330-48127-4, page 66:
- Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script […].
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs. Vol. IV, London: Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-48128-1; republished London: Picador, 2007, ISBN 978-0-330-48127-4, page 66:
- (equestrianism) Often Puissance: the high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French puissance, derived from Old French puissant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i.s??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
puissance f (plural puissances)
- power (physical or figuratively)
- dominion (state within the British Empire)
Derived terms
- en puissance
- puissance mondiale
Related terms
- pouvoir
Preposition
puissance
- (mathematics) to the power of
- Deux puissance quatre égale seize.
Further reading
- “puissance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French puissance.
Noun
puissance f (plural puissances)
- power
Descendants
- French: puissance
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From puissant, pussant.
Noun
puissance f (oblique plural puissances, nominative singular puissance, nominative plural puissances)
- power; ability; authority
- might; strength
Descendants
- English: puissance (borrowed through Anglo-Norman)
- Middle French: puissance
- French: puissance
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clout
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /kl??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English clout, from Old English cl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German kl?z (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian ????? (gluda). See also cleat. The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
Noun
clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)
- Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- (baseball, informal) A home run.
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,[4]
- A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,[4]
- (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
- (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,[5]
- His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;
- c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- […] a clout upon that head
- Where late the diadem stood […]
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 74,[7]
- We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,[5]
- (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
- (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,[8]
- And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)
- To hit, especially with the fist.
- To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
- 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster
- Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in […] clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
- 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster
- To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
- To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
- To join or patch clumsily.
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)
- Dated form of clot.
- 1948, The Essex Review
- He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]
- 1948, The Essex Review
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English cl?t, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz. Compare cloud.
Alternative forms
- clowt, cloute, clowte, clowtt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu?t/
Noun
clout (plural cloutes)
- A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:
- A patch (fabric for mending).
- A bandage or dressing (for wounds)
- rag, tatter (piece of clothing)
- A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:
- Threadbare or inferior clothing.
- Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes.
- A burial shroud.
- A washer; a round metal panel.
- A fragment or shred.
- A strike, blow or hit.
Related terms
- clouten
- clouting
- clowter
Descendants
- English: clout
- Scots: clout, cloot
References
- “cl?ut, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “cl?ut, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
clout
- Alternative form of clouten
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