bouclier
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Etymology[edit]
Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bouclier m (plural boucliers)
- shield (broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body)
- levée de boucliers ― outcry, protest (literally, “raising of shields”)
- 1820 [1819], Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott:
- Le même portait, en outre, le petit bouclier triangulaire, assez large à son sommet pour protéger la poitrine, et, à partir de là, s’amincissant en pointe.
- [original: He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point.]
- (by extension) shield (anything which protects or defends)
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Further reading[edit]
- “bouclier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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