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noun, feminine

cisailles

/si.zaj/

noun, feminine/si.zaj/

shears, clippers

Related: cisailler

Inherited from Old French cisaille(s), from a Vulgar Latin *cisac(u)la, from *caesacula, from the neuter plural of a *caesaculum, formed from the root of Latin caesus, from caedō (“cut”). Cf. also the related ciseau.