étoupe

Inherited from Old French estupe, from Latin stuppa, from Ancient Greek στύππη (stúppē).

• IPA^(key): /e.tup/

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étoupe f (plural étoupes)

1. oakum, tow (residue)

étoupe

1. inflection of étouper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “étoupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.