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ventouse

ventouse noun: a cupping glass.

Noun

ventouse (plural ventouses)

  1. (obsolete) A cupping glass.
    • [I]t commeth at length to fall upon the fleſh which the ventoſe ſticketh faſt unto, and by heating and inchafing, it expreſſeth the humor that is within, into the ventoſe or cupping veſſel.1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022
  2. A suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.

Verb

ventouse (third-person singular simple present ventouses, present participle ventousing, simple past and past participle ventoused)

  1. (obsolete) To cup; to use a cupping glass.

Forms of ventouse

Noun
pluralventouses
alternative formventose
Verb
third-person singular presentventouses
present participleventousing
past participleventoused
pastventoused

Origin of ventouse

Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.

Questions about ventouse

What does ventouse mean?
Ventouse means a cupping glass.
What part of speech is ventouse?
Ventouse can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of ventouse?
The plural of ventouse is ventouses.

Words near ventouse in the dictionary

  1. Ventos
  2. ventose
  3. ventoses
  4. ventosities
  5. ventosity
  6. ventouse
  7. ventoused
  8. ventouses
  9. ventousing
  10. Ventra card
  11. Ventra cards

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