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n. - Excessive breakableness.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Adjective : friable rock
  • I know, would be changed into a perfect friability.
  • Compare pastry that is made with lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils and butter, as to taste, appearance, flakiness or friability, and tenderness.
  • On light soils, on the contrary, whose friability and openness are already too great, and which do not require to be increased, the manure will be best applied in a...
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