pomace

noun
/ˈpʌmɪs/UK/ˈpʌməs/US

Etymology

[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds] From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum. Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).

  1. derived from *h₂epó — “away; off
  2. derived from pōmum — “fruit; fruit tree
  3. derived from pōmācium
  4. inherited from pomis

Definitions

  1. The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or…

    The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

    • [O]ne of the Hintocks (several of which lay thereabout)—where the people make the best cider and cider-wine in all Wessex, and where the dunghills smell of pomace instead of stable refuse as elsewhere.
  2. Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”).

  3. Sheep offal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pomace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA