fourragère

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Etymology

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From French, feminine of fourrager (connected with or yielding forage), from fourrage (forage), from Old French forage.

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Noun

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fourragère (plural fourragères)

  1. A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
    • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up, A. & C. Boni, page 160:
      When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.

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French

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Adjective

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fourragère

  1. feminine singular of fourrager

Noun

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fourragère f (plural fourragères)

  1. hay wagon

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