rasure

Meaning

Noun

• Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
• Obliteration, destruction.
• Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.

Origin

• From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra, from the participle stem of rādere.