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5 letters · 5 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
originBorrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0