encolure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French encolure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑŋkəˈlʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

encolure (plural encolures)

1. The neck of a horse.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, The Statue and the Bust:

     Crisped like a war-steed's encolure

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “encolure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• corneule

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kɔ.lyʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

encolure f (plural encolures)

1. neck (of a horse)

Further reading

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