bague

See also: bagué

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.

Noun

bague (plural bagues)

1. (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bague in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

Etymology

From Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin. Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch, ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, collar, bracelet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɡ/

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Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. ring

Further reading

• “bague” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bauge

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Norman

Etymology

Of Germanic origins, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
2. (Jersey) haw (fruit)