foule
English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)
- Obsolete form of foul.
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
- The Patron of true Holinesse
foule Errour doth defeate;
Hypocrisie him to entrappe
doth to his home entreate.
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.
Noun[edit]
foule f (plural foules)
- crowd
- Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d'expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d'une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- the thronging of a crowd
- a great number, multitude, mass; host
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin fullō (“I trample, I full”). More at full.
Noun[edit]
foule f (plural foules)
Verb[edit]
foule
- inflection of fouler:
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Further reading[edit]
- “foule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Verb[edit]
foule
- inflection of foulen:
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelə- (“to fill”).
Noun[edit]
foule f (plural foules)
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