brise-bise
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French brise-bise.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brise-bise (plural brises-bises)
- A net curtain (or lace curtain) for the lower half of a window.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]brise-bise m (plural brise-bise)
- brise-bise (net curtain for the lower half of a window)
- 1949 [1946], Jacques Prévert, “Événements”, in Paroles [Words], Éditions Gallimard, page 54:
- l’hirondelle continue son chemin et voit
à travers les brise-bise d’une autre fenêtre
autour du jeune mort toute la famille assise
elle est arrivée en taxi
en larmes en deuil et sur son trente et un
elle veille le mort- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “brise-bise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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