guêtre

Inherited from Middle French guietres pl, from Old French guestes pl, from Frankish *wrist (“instep”). Compare Middle Dutch gewreste, German Rist, Icelandic rist (“instep; grate; grille”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛtʁ/

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guêtre f (plural guêtres)

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

     Il avait des guêtres bouclées jusqu'aux genoux, sa casquette enfoncée jusqu'aux yeux, les lèvres grelottantes et le nez rouge. C'était le capitaine Binet, à l'affût des canards sauvages.

     He had gaiters buckled up to the knees, his cap pulled down over his eyes, trembling lips, and a red nose. It was Captain Binet lying in ambush for wild ducks.

2. leggings

• houseau

• → Alemannic German: Geete
• → English: gaiter
• → Italian: ghetta
  • → Romanian: gheată
• → Persian: گتر (getr)
• → Romanian: ghetră
• → Russian: ге́тра (gétra)
  • → Armenian: գետրի (getri)
• → Ukrainian: ге́тра (hétra)

guêtre

1. inflection of guêtrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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