manchette

English

Etymology

From French manchette.

Noun

manchette (plural manchettes)

1. (fencing) a special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand
2. (medicine) a conical array of microtubules that completely covers the nucleus of a spermatid
3. (cooking) a paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat
4. (furniture) an upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
5. (printing) a vertical heading within a newspaper article.
6. (cycling) a sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
7. An ornamental cuff.

Translations

fencing glove

• Finnish: miekkailukäsine

medicine: array of microtubules

cusine: frill of paper

• Finnish: mansetti (fi)

upholstered arm

• Finnish: pehmustettu käsinoja

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French

Etymology

From manche +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ʃɛt/

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Noun

manchette f (plural manchettes)

1. cuff
2. oversleeve, manchette
3. (journalism) headline
4. marginal note; note in the margin

Descendants

• German: Manschette
• Romanian: manșetă
• Russian: манже́та (manžéta)

Further reading

• “manchette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).