turquois

turquois (countable and uncountable, plural turquoises)

1. Archaic form of turquoise.

turc +‎ -ois.

turquois m (oblique and nominative feminine singular turquoise)

1. Turkish

• Middle French: turquoise
  • French: turquoise (“gemstone”)
    • Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
    • Turkish: turkuaz
    • Romanian: turcoază (stone)
    • French: turquoise (“colour”)
      • Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)
      • Turkish: turkuaz
      • Romanian: turcoază (colour)
  • → English: turquoise
  • → Luxembourgish: turquoise

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “turquois”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.