fleuret – French noun declension

French noun forms of fleuret

Noun: fleuret
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mfleuret
Plural mfleurets

Sample Sentences

  • Et même il admirait déjà sur sa cheminée deux fleurets en sautoir avec une tête de mort et la guitare au-dessus. (He even already was admiring two crossed foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's-head on the guitar above them.) [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:]
  • Ils font des armes avec des fleurets qu'ils ont apportés. (They fence with the foils they have brought.) [1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac:]

Etymology

From fleur + -et, calque of Italian fioretto. See: Italian Nouns 'fioretto'.

Verbs referencing "fleuret"

Polish Nouns floret, German Nouns Florett, Czech Nouns fleret, Romanian Nouns floretă, Swedish Nouns florett.

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