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pellicle
pellicle:
see
fell
pellicle (n.)
1540s, from Middle French
pellicle
(Modern French
pellicule
), from Latin
pellicula
"small or thin skin," diminutive of
pellis
"skin, leather, parchment, hide" (see
film
(n.)). Related:
Pellicular
.