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searge

searge is the obsolete form of serge.

Meaning of serge

Noun (1)

serge (countable and uncountable, plural serges)

  1. A type of worsted cloth.
    • Lucy, who had only seen her in either the large loose wrapping dress of serge, or in the quaint simplicity of the Puritanic garb, then so general in England, could not restrain an exclamation of admiration as she returned to their chamber.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 110
  2. (metonymically) A garment made of this fabric.

Noun (2)

serge (plural serges)

  1. A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies.

See all 4 meanings of serge

Forms of searge

pluralsearges

Questions about searge

What is searge the obsolete form of?
Searge is the obsolete form of serge.

Words near searge in the dictionary

  1. searer
  2. searers
  3. searest
  4. seareth
  5. Searfoss
  6. searge
  7. seargent
  8. seargents
  9. searges
  10. Searight
  11. Searights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: searge (page history and authors); serge (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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