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grattages

grattages is the plural of grattage.

Meaning of grattage

Noun

grattage (countable and uncountable, plural grattages)

  1. The scraping away of granulations (from an ulcer etc.) in order to stimulate healing.
    • August 18th.—Operation by "grattage" without ether. The pain experienced by the patient was quite severe.1891 October 24, John E. Weeks, “The surgical treatment of granulated lids”, in New York Medical Journal, volume 54, page 456
  2. A technique popularized by Max Ernst involving scraping at dried paint in order to form patterns.
    • Automatism in art can arise quite deliberately from manual techniques (such as frottage, grattage and decalcomania in the visual arts, algorithmic or statistical procedures in musical composition, or random verbal collages in poetry) or accidentally from altered states of consciousness (for...2010, Eran Guter, Aesthetics A-Z, page 25

Questions about grattages

What is grattages the plural of?
Grattages is the plural of grattage.

Words near grattages in the dictionary

  1. gratitudinal
  2. Graton
  3. gratonite
  4. grats
  5. grattage
  6. grattages
  7. Grattai
  8. Grattan
  9. Grattans
  10. grattarolaite
  11. gratters

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