fourragère

See also: fourragere

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʊɹəʒɛɹ/

Noun

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.

See also

• aiguillette

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁa.ʒɛʁ/

Adjective

fourragère

1. feminine singular of fourrager

Noun

fourragère f (plural fourragères)

1. hay wagon

Further reading

• “fourragère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.