pelage

From French pelage (“fur”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛlɪd͡ʒ/

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• Homophone: pellage

pelage (plural pelages)

1. Fur, hair, or any other form of the coat of a mammal.
2. The characteristic nature of this coat: its coarseness or fineness, its typical lay, and so on.

• Lapège, Lepage, peagle

From poil +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /pə.laʒ/

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pelage m (plural pelages)

1. fur

   Synonym: fourrure

• toison

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

pelagē

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pelagus

• “pelage”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pelage in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.