bénard

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.naʁ/
• Homophone: bénards

Etymology 1

From an obsolent adjective bernard (“foolish, stupid”)

Adjective

bénard (feminine bénarde, masculine plural bénards, feminine plural bénardes)

1. (dated, of a lock) That can be opened from either side using the same key

Etymology 2

From Auguste Bénard, name of a nineteenth-century tailor who designed a popular type of pants

Noun

bénard m (plural bénards)

1. (slang) Pants

Further reading

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