grinding (usually cereals); the fee charged for grinding; version, draft (of a document)
“Plus d’un mois et demi après l’adoption d’une première mouture contestée dans la rue puis suspendue par la justice, Donald Trump a signé lundi une version atténuée de son décret anti-immigration.” — On Monday, more than a month and a half after the adoption of an initial version that was contested in the streets and then suspended by the courts, Donald Trump signed a watered-down version of his anti-immigration decree.
Synonyms: version
Inherited from Old French molture, from moldre (“to grind”), later moudre, the same as Modern French. The Old French alternatively derives from a Vulgar Latin *molitūra, from Latin molitus (compare Spanish moltura, Friulian muldure).