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selvages
We have found lemma(root) word of selvages : selvedge.
Definitions
[ˈsɛlvɪdʒ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unravelling
- a zone of altered rock, especially volcanic glass, at the edge of a rock mass
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Origin
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late Middle English: from an alteration of self + edge, on the pattern of early modern Dutch selfegghe. The geological term dates from the 1930s
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