souple

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpəl/

Borrowed from French souple; a doublet of supple.

souple (not comparable)

1. Of raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.

Borrowed from Middle Scots sowpill, from Middle English swepels, from swepen +‎ -els; a doublet of swipple.

souple (plural souples)

1. A swipple; the part of a flail that strikes the grain.^[1]

• Loupes, Peluso, Puleos, loupes, poules

From Latin supplex.

• IPA^(key): /supl/

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souple (plural souples)

1. supple
2. yielding
3. flexible

   Antonyms: rigide, raide

• assouplir
• souplesse
• souplement

• → English: souple

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

• loupes, poules

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman souple, from Latin supplex.

• sople, suple, supple (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpəl/, /ˈsuːplə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsupəl/ (Late Middle English, also)

souple

1. pliant, supple
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.

     His boots flexible, his horse in a fine condition

2. obedient, submissive, meek
3. (rare) flexible, bendy
4. (rare) benevolent, beneficent

• souplen

• English: supple

• “sǒuple, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

souple

1. alternative form of souplen

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin supplex.

souple m (oblique and nominative feminine singular souple)

1. supple (which bends readily)
   • circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde

     keue souple

     Supple tail

• French: souple
  • → English: souple
• → Middle English: souple, sople, suple, supple (Late Middle English)
  • English: supple