fleuret
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French fleurette, diminutive of fleur (“flower”). Doublet of floret and floweret.
Noun
fleuret (plural fleurets)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From fleur + -et, calque of Italian fioretto.
Noun
fleuret m (plural fleurets)
- (fencing) foil (weapon)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- 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.
- 1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac:
- Ils font des armes avec des fleurets qu'ils ont apportés.
- They fence with the foils they have brought.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Catalan floret or Italian fioretto, doublet of foret.
Noun
fleuret m (plural fleurets)
Further reading
- “fleuret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012