brassière

brassière (plural brassières)

1. Alternative form of brassiere.

• brasserie

Inherited from Old French braciere (originally a lining inside armor to protect the arm, but later a garment), from Old French brace (“arm”). Equivalent to bras +‎ -ière.

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.sjɛʁ/

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brassière f (plural brassières)

1. child's vest
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Il la voyait déjà revenant de l'école à la tombée du jour, toute rieuse, avec sa brassière tachée d'encre, et portant au bras son panier; puis il faudrait la mettre en pension, cela coûterait beaucoup; comment faire?

     He already saw her coming from school as the day drew in, laughing, with ink-stains on her jacket, and carrying her basket on her arm.

2. (nautical) life jacket
3. (dated outside Quebec) brassiere, bra

   Synonym: soutien-gorge

• brassard

• → English: brassiere, brassière
  • → Spanish: brasier

• “brassière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• brasserie