noun, masculine/ta.mi/
sieve, riddle; screen (mesh for filtering)
“Déplacez le tamis de gauche à droite 30 fois, en faisant un mouvement de tamisage.” — Move the sieve from left to right 30 times using a sifting motion.
Inherited from Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Late Latin tamisium, from Frankish *tamisu (“sieve, screen”). Cognate with English temse. Compare also regional Italian tamiso.