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单词 gyps
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gypsn.

/dʒɪps/
Forms: Also Middle English ? plural gipsis, Middle English gipse, 1700s gypse.
Etymology: Anglicized form of gypsum n. Compare French gypse, German gips.
= gypsum n.
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xv. lvii. 509 In the grounde abowte Parys is a manere stone that hyght Gipsis.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 383 Or gipse, or askes twey cotuls no wronge Thy wynes doth.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. i. 46 The Gypse..is commonly found of some regular form, approaching upon the rhomboide.
1774 Projects in Ann. Reg. 108/1 To coalesce and set as readily as our gypses and plasters.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 439 Gyps is calcareous earth saturated with vitriolic acid.
1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 144 Coffered ceilings of gyps are triumphs of the plasterer's art.
attributive.1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 141 The Wrangel Grafchor is a fine specimen of northern gyps-work.
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