cru

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First we have the mot cru, the popular term, soon followed by the technical and scientific, and, lastly, the literary or figurative nomenclature, which is often much more immoral because more attractive, suggestive and seductive than the "raw word."

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  1. French, from past participle of croître, to grow, from Old French creistre; see crescent.
 

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