couverture
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French couverture. Doublet of coverture.
Noun
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couverture (countable and uncountable, plural couvertures)
- Chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets; a covering of such chocolate.
- Alternative spelling of coverture
Translations
[edit]chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets
References
[edit]- OED2
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French coverture, from Late Latin coopertūra, from Latin coopertus. By surface analysis, couvrir + -ture.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]couverture f (plural couvertures)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “couverture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French coverture, from Late Latin coopertūra, from Latin coopertus.
Noun
[edit]couverture f (plural couvertures)
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