gargouille

See also: gargouillé

French

Une gargouille de la Cathedrale d'Amiens

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.ɡuj/

Noun

gargouille f (plural gargouilles)

1. gargoyle (of water pipe)
2. gargoyle (of a building)
   • 1970, “J'habite en France”, in J'habite en France, performed by Michel Sardou:

     Y’en a qui pensent que le champagne / Sort des gargouilles de Notre-Dame

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Polish: gargulec

Verb

gargouille

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

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gargouille.

Noun

gargouille f (invariable)

1. (architecture) gargoyle (grotesque water spout)

   Synonyms: gargolla, garguglia