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noun
Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
Obliteration, destruction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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History
From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādō (“to scrape, shave”).
