souple

Etymology 1
From a UK dialect form of.

Adjective

 * 1) Of raw silk: deprived of its silk-glue.

Noun

 * 1) The part of a flail that strikes the grain.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) supple
 * 2) yielding
 * 3) flexible

Etymology
and, from

Adjective

 * 1) flexible; supple
 * 2) * 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
 * His bootes souple, his hors in greet estaat.
 * His boots flexible, his horse in a fine condition

Noun

 * 1) supple (which bends readily)
 * 2) * circa 1170, La vie de St. Emonde
 * keue souple
 * Supple tail