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fourragère

/fʊɹəʒɛɹ/

fourragère noun: a braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.

Noun

fourragère (plural fourragères)

  1. A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
    • When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up, A. & C. Boni, page 160

Forms of fourragère

pluralfourragères

Origin of fourragère

From French, feminine of fourrager (“connected with or yielding forage”), from fourrage (“forage”), from Old French forage.

Questions about fourragère

What does fourragère mean?
Fourragère means a braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
What part of speech is fourragère?
Fourragère is a noun.
How do you pronounce fourragère?
Fourragère is pronounced /fʊɹəʒɛɹ/.
What is the plural of fourragère?
The plural of fourragère is fourragères.

Words near fourragère in the dictionary

  1. fourquels
  2. Fourrage
  3. fourragere
  4. fourrageres
  5. Fourrages
  6. fourragère
  7. fourragères
  8. fourrier
  9. fourriers
  10. fours
  11. fourscore

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