soilages
soilages is the plural of soilage.
Meaning of soilage
Noun (1)
soilage (usually uncountable, plural soilages)
Noun (2)
soilage (uncountable)
- Act, process, or instance of soiling.
- The fear of defilement, violation of self and reification, is revealed by the way the respondents described the burglaries in which there was neither breakage, soilage, or, sometimes, any disorder. In such cases, burglary is called work and is said tot have been "cleanly done"[.]1976, Irwin Altman, Human Behavior and Environment: Home environments, page 78
- State or condition of being soiled.
- Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […]1985, Gardner S. Haynes, Laboratory Corrosion Tests and Standards: A Symposium by ASTM Committee G-1 on Corrosion of Metals, Bal Harbour, FL, 14-16 Nov. 1983, ASTM International, →ISBN, page 271
Noun (3)
soilage (uncountable)
- Soil.
- […] which was pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched u in a Charnel under the Chappel were conveyed from thence to Finsbury Field […] and there laid on a Moorish Ground, in short space after raised by Soilage of the City, upon them to bear Three Wind Mills. The Chappel and...a. 1902, Strype's Stow, book 3, page 148, quoted in 1902, James Foster Wadmore, Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London: Being the Guild Or Fraternity of Corpus Christi, page 155
Questions about soilages
- What is soilages the plural of?
- Soilages is the plural of soilage.
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