colature

English

Etymology

Latin colatura. Compare French colature. See colander.

Noun

colature (plural colatures)

  1. (obsolete) A strainer.
  2. (obsolete) The process of straining.
  3. (obsolete) The matter that is strained.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Noun

colature f (plural colatures)

  1. strainer
  2. strained water

Further reading

Italian

Noun

colature f

  1. plural of colatura

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