Noun: bouclier
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bouclier |
| Plural m | boucliers |
Sample Sentences
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levée de boucliers (outcry, protest)
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He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point. [1820 [1819], Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott:]
Nouns inflected like bouclier
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.
Verbs referencing "bouclier"
English Nouns
buckler, Spanish Nouns
broquel, Dutch Nouns
beukelaar.
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