cambrure

French

Etymology

From cambrer +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃.bʁyʁ/
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Noun

cambrure f (plural cambrures)

  1. instep, arch (of the foot)
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Sa voix maintenant prenait des inflexions plus molles, sa taille aussi; quelque chose de subtil qui vous pénétrait se dégageait même des draperies de sa robe et de la cambrure de son pied.
      Her voice now took more mellow inflections, her figure also; something subtle and penetrating escaped even from the folds of her gown and from the line of her foot.
  2. camber (of a road)
  3. small of the back

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