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fléchette

fléchette is the alternative form of flechette.

Meaning of flechette

Noun

flechette (countable and uncountable, plural flechettes)

  1. A small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.
  2. (dated, uncountable) The game of lawn darts.
    • The Game of Flechette can be confidently recommended to amuse the seniors at a garden party1907, Country-side: A Wildlife Magazine, v. 5 (1907), p. 26. British Empire Naturalist's Association.

Forms of fléchette

pluralfléchettes

Questions about fléchette

What is fléchette the alternative form of?
Fléchette is the alternative form of flechette.

Words near fléchette in the dictionary

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

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