boucle

See also: bouclé

English

Etymology

From French boucler (“to buckle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

Noun

boucle (countable and uncountable, plural boucles)

1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Translations

fabric

• Finnish: bukleekangas
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yarn

• Finnish: silmukkalanka, bukleelanka
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French

Etymology

From Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

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Noun

boucle f (plural boucles)

1. loop (line returning to its origin)
2. (jewelry) earring
3. buckle (of a belt, etc.)
4. curl (of hair)
5. ringlet
6. (graph theory) loop
7. (figure skating) loop jump
8. (aviation) loop the loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

Derived terms

• en boucle
• boucle d’oreille

Related terms

• boucler
• bouclette

Descendants

• Catalan: bucle
• Galician: bucle
• Portuguese: bucle
• Russian: бу́кля (búklja)
• Spanish: bucle

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin buccula, diminutive of bucca (“cheek”). Compare Anglo-Norman bucle.

Noun

boucle oblique singular, f (oblique plural boucles, nominative singular boucle, nominative plural boucles)

1. buckle

Descendants

• → Middle High German: buckel
  • German: Buckel
• → English: buckle
• French: boucle
• Norman: boucl'ye (Jersey)