Talk:escarbille

RFV discussion: October 2020–February 2022
French. Tagged by Languageseeker today (“I don't see "often making small holes in clothes" in any dictionary.”), not listed. J3133 (talk) 05:37, 27 October 2020 (UTC)


 * The definition in Le Trésor is: “Small piece of coal, incompletely burnt, that mixes with the ashes or escapes from a hearth.” There is no suggestion it is still burning or even smouldering. Here is a patent for the invention of a sifting apparatus to récupérer les escarbilles (recover the remaining pieces of coal) from the ashes, something I had to do by hand as a child. --Lambiam 08:48, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * To solve this, I suggest formulating this part of “escaping etc.” as a potentiality, because it clear that this also means remaining pieces of of coal in ashes, sufficiently quoted at French Wiktionary and else of clearly widespread use, but on the other hand – the Trésor also defines that hand – such parts really tend to escape and, and this seems to reflect the meaning had in mind when defining as present, what are devices that are anti-escarbilles? I find many hits for this in relation to grills and industrial applications., maybe you find corresponding idioms. Fay Freak (talk) 00:08, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * No suggestion it is still burning or even smouldering? That's incorrect, the first example in the TLFi « Des escarbilles incandescentes » suggests the contrary: if it is incandescent, it will easily make holes in clothes. 92.184.117.23 01:21, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I rewrote the definition and imported two quotations from TLFi, one meaning scavenged fuel and the other meaning floating embers. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

RFV-resolved. The definition has been rewritten to remove the part for which verification was requested. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:55, 24 February 2022 (UTC)