manchette
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
manchette (plural manchettes)
- (fencing) a special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand
- (medicine) a conically shaped array of microtubules that completely covers the nucleus of a spermatid
- (cooking) a paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat
- (furniture) an upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
- (printing) a vertical heading within a newspaper article.
- (cycling) a sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
Translations[edit]
fencing:glove
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medicine: array of micro tubes
upholstered arm
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
manchette f (plural manchettes)
Descendants[edit]
- German: Manschette
- Romanian: manșetă
- Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
Further reading[edit]
- “manchette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Fencing
- en:Medicine
- en:Cooking
- en:Furniture
- en:Printing
- en:Cycling
- French words suffixed with -ette
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Media