fourragère
See also: fourragere
English edit
Etymology edit
From French, feminine of fourrager (“connected with or yielding forage”), from fourrage (“forage”), from Old French forage.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fourragère (plural fourragères)
- A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up, A. & C. Boni, page 160:
- When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fourragère
Noun edit
fourragère f (plural fourragères)
Further reading edit
- “fourragère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.