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lanifice

lanifice noun: anything made of wool, or woolworking.

Noun

lanifice (plural lanifices)

  1. (obsolete) Anything made of wool, or woolworking.
    • The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
    • If the lanifice (woollen manufacture) of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense.1974, Olwen H. Hufton, The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789

Forms of lanifice

plurallanifices

Origin of lanifice

From Latin lanificium: compare Old French lanifice.

Questions about lanifice

What does lanifice mean?
Lanifice means anything made of wool, or woolworking.
What part of speech is lanifice?
Lanifice is a noun.
What is the plural of lanifice?
The plural of lanifice is lanifices.

Words near lanifice in the dictionary

  1. lanier
  2. Lanier County
  3. Lanierian
  4. laniers
  5. laniferous
  6. lanifice
  7. lanifices
  8. Lanigan
  9. Lanigans
  10. lanigerous
  11. laniid

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