fauchard
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fauchard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fauchard (plural fauchards)
- (historical) An early European weapon consisting of a curved blade on a long pole.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French fauchar, fauchart, from Old French fauçard, from Vulgar Latin *falcāre, derived from Latin falx (“sickle, scythe”). Doublet of faux ("scythe").
Noun
[edit]fauchard m (plural fauchards)
Further reading
[edit]- “fauchard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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