brioche – French noun declension

French noun forms of brioche

Noun: brioche
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fbrioche
Plural fbrioches

Sample Sentences

  • Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. (At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: “Then let them eat brioches”.) [1782–1789 [1769], Jean-Jacques Rousseau, chapter VI, in Les Confessions [The Confessions]:]

Etymology

From Old French brier (“to break”) + -oche; compare French broyer.

Verbs referencing "brioche"

Dutch Nouns brioche, Italian Nouns brioche, Finnish Nouns briossi, Italian Nouns brioscia, German Nouns Brioche, Romanian Nouns brioșă, Czech Nouns brioška, Catalan Nouns brioix.

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