Noun: pounce
| Singular | pounce |
| Plural | pounces |
Sample Sentences
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At the Thorn, or at a meagre kitchen table, or even on the carpenter’s workbench, he spreads open the portfolio, lights a candle stub, slices a fresh quill, and arranges pounce pot and ink well. [2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 120:]
Nouns inflected like pounce
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French ponce, from Latin pūmex. Doublet of pumice. See: French Nouns '
ponce', Latin Nouns '
pūmex'.