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scyes

scyes is the plural of scye.

Meaning of scye

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

  1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
    • on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

Words that rhyme with scyes

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Questions about scyes

What is scyes the plural of?
Scyes is the plural of scye.

Words near scyes in the dictionary

  1. scye
  2. scyelite
  3. scyen
  4. scyence
  5. scyens
  6. scyes
  7. scygonadin
  8. scygonadins
  9. scylacosaurid
  10. scylacosaurids
  11. scyle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scyes (page history and authors); scye (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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