{"id":22385,"date":"2022-08-09T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22385"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:24:04","slug":"essuie-tout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22385","title":{"rendered":"Essuie-tout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Essuie-tout<\/strong> [e.s\u0265i.tu] is what you might call paper towels in French. It literally means \u201cwipe-all\u201d, and comes from <strong>essuyer<\/strong> (to wipe, wipe down, soak up) and <strong>tout<\/strong> (whole, entirely, total, all) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/essuie-tout#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eepaul\/6953456071\/in\/photolist-bAsheD-bnxLcu-2mD2mnd-2n4n4CQ-R4zHkG-2arqb17-2jogTYs-SRh6Ko-8bmdZe-LEP1i-PnjXFG-NWaJRs-2kWWCua-2ecwu9T-22WTeNp-6aBbPV-5tUUC4-LLnLPq-2ngbCWv-3cAqxA-21PWEVm-28TBY9m-YepJ1K-2h62ZJG-6bt6AH-5GUSiY-xbWRp-5bkFTH-osMyWW-9NCMiP-WMWX-6aBnKM-YND8Fe-7Edp74-nYxX2x-bNAZEK-68fw7t-qaNoYf-P1bnkN-5ZtZ25-2iwNWKc-3oBxB-dNnFpX-4sN8P3-P1bmry-9qNWzA-2iHRjZM-2k84tjN-2kKj4zw-2hV1amb\" title=\"kitchen roll\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7210\/6953456071_bb74a242e5_z.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen roll\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Essuyer<\/strong> comes from the Old French <em>essuier<\/em> (to wipe), from the Latin <em>exs\u016bc\u0101re<\/em> from <em>exs\u016bc\u014d<\/em> (I juice, I dry), from <em>ex-<\/em> (out, away) and <em>s\u016bcus<\/em> (juice, moisture) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/exsuco#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Such towels are also known as <strong>sopalin<\/strong> [s\u0254.pa.l\u025b\u0303] in French, which is a genericized trademark that was first registered in 1948 by the <em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du papier linge<\/em> (Linen Paper Company) and comes from the first syllables of the company name [<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sopalin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In English they are also known as <strong>kitchen towels<\/strong>, <strong>kitchen roll<\/strong> or <strong>kitchen paper<\/strong>. There may be other names for them as well. What do you call them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essuie<\/strong> also appears in <strong>essuie-glace<\/strong> (windscreen wiper), and <strong>essuie-mains<\/strong> (hand towel). Related words include; <strong>essuyer<\/strong> (to wipe, rub away, swab, suffer, experience), <strong>s\u2019essuyer<\/strong> (to dry o.s.), <strong>ressuyer<\/strong> (to dry, dry out) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/essuyer#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>essuyer une d\u00e9faite<\/strong> (suffer a defeat), <strong>essuyer une rebuffade<\/strong> (suffer a rebuff), <strong>essuyer le feu<\/strong> (come under a fire), <strong>essuyer un refus<\/strong> (get a refusal), <strong>essuyer un revers<\/strong> (suffer a setback) or even <strong>essuyer la vaisselle<\/strong> (dry the dishes) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/essuyer\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essuie-tout [e.s\u0265i.tu] is what you might call paper towels in French. It literally means \u201cwipe-all\u201d, and comes from essuyer (to wipe, wipe down, soak up) and tout (whole, entirely, total, all) [source]. Essuyer comes from the Old French essuier (to wipe), from the Latin exs\u016bc\u0101re from exs\u016bc\u014d (I juice, I dry), from ex- (out, away) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,34,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22387,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385\/revisions\/22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}