huppe
French
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Etymology
From Latin upupa, via the syncopated Vulgar Latin ūppa.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /yp/
Noun
huppe f (plural huppes)
- crest (tuft growing on an animal's head)
- 1873, La Vie des animaux par A. E. Brehm:
- C’est un assez grand oiseau, de 45 cent. de long, au plumage blanc éclatant. La huppe, les plumes qui recouvrent les oreilles, le milieu du ventre, les ailes et la partie radicale de la face interne des pennes caudales sont jaunes de soufre pâle ; le bec est noir ; les pattes sont d’un brun grisâtre.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (ornithology) hoopoe (bird of species Upupa epops)
Derived terms
Further reading
huppe on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “huppe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
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Noun
huppe f (plural huppes)
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