ébourrer

Senses

1. 1.

   to remove fibre/stuffing from

   to extract or pull out the coarse fibres or filling material from a substance

2. 2.

   to card (wool or flax)

   to comb and disentangle fibres in textile preparation

Examples

• "Il faut ébourrer la laine avant de la filer."

  You must card the wool before spinning it.

• "L'artisan ébourrrait le lin pour le préparer au tissage."

  The craftsman would card the flax to prepare it for weaving.

Usage

Ébourrer is a technical term used primarily in textile crafts and historical contexts. It is relatively uncommon in modern everyday French and is most often encountered in discussions of traditional fibre preparation or historical textile production.