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Meaning of scye | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/saɪ/

Definitions

An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.

Examples

“on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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