baudruche
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
baudruche f (plural baudruches)
- rubber skin
- Ellipsis of ballon de baudruche; (toy) balloon
- 1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “La Ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part”, in Fernande:
- Quant à l’air qu’ils emploient pour gonfler leurs baudruches / Leurs bulles de savon, c’est du souffle divin
- As for the air they use to blow up their balloons / And their soap bubbles, it is divine inspiration [literally "divine breath"]
- (informal, derogatory) windbag
Further reading edit
- “baudruche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.