empois

Inherited from Middle French empoix. From empeser.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pwa/

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empois m (usually uncountable, invariable)

1. glue made from starch
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     — Laisse-moi tranquille! disait-elle en déplaçant son pot d'empois.

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