fourchette

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English

Etymology

From French fourchette.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fourchette (plural fourchettes)

  1. (anatomy) A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
  2. A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove[1].
  3. (surgery) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
  4. The wishbone or furculum of birds
  5. The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
  6. (card games) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.

References

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Fourchette”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

French

Etymology

fourche +‎ -ette

Pronunciation

Noun

fourchette f (plural fourchettes)

  1. fork (for eating)
  2. diner, eater
    Hypernym: mangeur
    Mon oncle était une fourchette réputée.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. wishbone
  4. (statistics) margin
  5. (chess) fork
  6. band, bracket (as of taxes)
  7. frog (part of a horse's hoof)

Derived terms

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourchette.

Noun

fourchette f (plural fourchettes)

  1. (Jersey) fork
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