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de gras

de gras noun: purified wool fat (lanolin).

Noun

de gras (uncountable)

  1. Purified wool fat (lanolin).
    • The crude wool-fat, pure “de gras”, imported by the shipload to this country, principally from Marseilles, free from rosin oil, fish oil and other extraneous fats, selling at about 5 cents per pound, yields an article of as good absorbent power as lanolin, when prepared by the following process: 60...1889, C. S. Hallberg, “On Wool-Fat or Lanoleum”, in Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, pages 98–9
    • The oil, when cool, solidifies, and it is sold under the name of “de gras”, or Yorkshire grease.1909, Herman Stabler and Gilbert H. Pratt, The Purification of some Textile and other Factory Wastes, (US GPO, 1909) p. 18

Synonyms of de gras

Forms of de gras

alternative formdégras

Origin of de gras

From French de + gras ("from fat").

Questions about de gras

What does de gras mean?
De gras means purified wool fat (lanolin).
What part of speech is de gras?
De gras is a noun.

Words near de gras in the dictionary

  1. De Fonblanque
  2. De Forest
  3. De Forests
  4. De Fryske Marren
  5. De Geer Land Bridge
  6. de gras
  7. de Grasse
  8. de Grasses
  9. De Groot
  10. de Haas-Van Alphen effect
  11. de haut en bas

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