molasse

From French molasse, a kind of sandstone, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈlas/

molasse (plural molasses)

1. (geology) A shallow deposit of sandstone, shale and conglomerate in front of a rising mountain chain.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 109:

     The molasse provides a record of the wearing down of the Alpine range at a late stage; unlike the Flysch, it is largely non-marine.

• molassic

• almoses, sesamol

molasse

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of molare

• messola