bardache
French edit
Etymology edit
Earlier bredaiche, borrowed from Italian bardassa, from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bardache m (plural bardaches)
- (dated) berdache (third-gender Native (North) American)
- (obsolete) passive homosexual
- Synonym: giton
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “bardache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.