fourchette
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fourchette.
Pronunciation
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Noun
fourchette (plural fourchettes)
- (anatomy) A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
- A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (surgery) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
- The wishbone or furculum of birds
- The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
- (card games) The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fourchette f (plural fourchettes)
- fork (for eating)
- wishbone
- (statistics) margin
- (chess) fork
- band, bracket (as of taxes)
- frog (part of a horse's hoof)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fourchette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French fourchette.
Noun
fourchette f (plural fourchettes)
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