/sɜːd͡ʒ/, /sɝd͡ʒ/
OriginFrom Middle English sarge, from Old French sarge, serge, from Vulgar Latin *sarica, from Latin sērica (“silken, silk things”), from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”). Doublet of silk and seric.
- countable, uncountableA 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 admir”
“What I noticed most strongly was his smell, of hair oil and serge and cigarette smoke, and something else, something intimate and sour and wholly, shockingly other.”
- countable, metonymically, uncountableA garment made of this fabric.
- A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies.
Formsserges(plural) · serges(present, singular, third-person) · serging(participle, present) · serged(participle, past) · serged(past)