Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O). · Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin alūmen Anglo-Norman alum, alunbor. Middle English alym, alyme, alum English alum From Middle English alum, alym, alyme, from Anglo-Norman alum, alun, from Latin alūmen.
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