brèche
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See also: breche
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French breche, bresche, from Old French breche, bresche (“a breach, an opening, crack”), from Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”).
Cognate with Old High German brecha (“a break”). More at break.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bʁɛʃ/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛʃ
Noun
[edit]brèche f (plural brèches)
- gap, hole
- 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Alexandre:
- Un jour de mai 68, il y avait beaucoup de monde dans le café, et tout le monde pleurait… tout un café pleurait, c'était très beau. Une grenade lacrymogène était tombée. Si je n'y étais pas allé régulièrement tous les matins, je n'aurais rien vu de tout cela. Alors que là, sous mes yeux, une brèche était ouverte dans la réalité.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (military) breach
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “brèche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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