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flèches

flèches is the plural of flèche.

Meaning of flèche

Noun

flèche (plural flèches)

  1. (obsolete) An arrow.
  2. Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
  3. A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
  4. An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
  5. A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.

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Phrases with flèches

Questions about flèches

What is flèches the plural of?
Flèches is the plural of flèche.

Words near flèches in the dictionary

  1. Flå
  2. Flåm
  3. flèche
  4. flèche faîtière
  5. flèched
  6. flèches
  7. flèches faîtières
  8. flèching
  9. fléchette
  10. fléchettes
  11. Flötjan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flèches (page history and authors); flèche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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