morceau
noun/ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/ · /mɔː(ɹ)ˈsəʊ/
Etymology From French morceau, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to rub, wipe; to pack, rob”). Doublet of morsel.
1
A small bit; a morsel or snippet.
- M. De Luc has a specimen of the uranite (Peckblend) mixed with titan and crystals of quartz, a morceau of singular beauty1816, Henry Coxe, The Traveller's Guide in Switzerland:
- Amongſt a variety of urns, sepulchral fragments, and different morceaus of antiquity, are the known and celebrated buſts of Alexander the Great, and Brutus1796, John Owen, Travels Into Different Parts of Europe […] :
- Synonyms
- modicum