fougasse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fougasse. Doublet of focaccia.

Noun

fougasse (plural fougasses)

2. A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.
4. An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.

   Synonym: fougade

Translations

old-fashioned type of land mine

• French: fougasse (fr), fougasse (fr) f
• Italian: fugas, fougasse
• Polish: fugas (pl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: фуга́с (ru) (fugás)
• Spanish: fogata f

Further reading

• fougasse (bread) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ɡas/

Etymology 1

From earlier fougade, probably borrowed from Italian fogata (from fogare, from foga), with a change of suffix.

Noun

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (military) fougasse (land-mine)

Etymology 2

From Middle French fougasse, foucasse, borrowed from Old Occitan fogatza, fogassa, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *focacia, from the feminine of the adjective focacius, from Latin focus. Compare Catalan fogassa, Occitan fogaça, fogassa, Italian focaccia, Spanish hogaza. Doublet of the inherited fouace.

Noun

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (cooking) fougasse (lattice-shaped bread associated with Provence)

Related terms

• fouace
• feu

Further reading

• “fougasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• fougasse on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr