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mascule

mascule is the alternative form of mascle.

Meaning of mascle

Noun

mascle (plural mascles)

  1. (historical) A lozenge-shaped piece of metal, used in making scale mail.
  2. A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.

Forms of mascule

pluralmascules

Origin of mascule

Variant of mascle, Middle English maskel, maskle, from maskle, from Medieval Latin mascula, from Germanic source. Cognate with Medieval Latin macula and Old French macle, macule. Compare English mesh). Doublet of mail.

Questions about mascule

What is mascule the alternative form of?
Mascule is the alternative form of mascle.

Words near mascule in the dictionary

  1. masculate
  2. masculated
  3. masculates
  4. masculating
  5. masculation
  6. mascule
  7. mascules
  8. masculin
  9. masculinazi
  10. masculinazis
  11. masculine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mascule (page history and authors); mascle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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