bouclé

See also: boucle and Bouclé

English

Etymology

From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈkleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

bouclé (countable and uncountable, plural bouclés)

1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
   • 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 18:

     Argent’s Metropolitan line was a sound investment, with its chemically treated bouclé cushions and Airform core.

   • 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He, too, showed up in style ahead of the game, wearing a custom bedazzled Amri combination of a bouclé shirt and matching shimmering trousers.

2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

Translations

fabric

• Finnish: bukleekangas
• German: Bouclé n
• Spanish: bucle (es)

yarn

• Finnish: silmukkalanka, bukleelanka

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

bouclé (feminine bouclée, masculine plural bouclés, feminine plural bouclées)

1. past participle of boucler

Adjective

bouclé (feminine bouclée, masculine plural bouclés, feminine plural bouclées)

1. curly

Further reading

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