fauchon

English

Noun

fauchon (plural fauchons)

1. Obsolete form of falchion.

French

Etymology

From Old French fauchon (cognate with Italian falcione), from Vulgar Latin *falciōnem, from Latin falx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.ʃɔ̃/

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Noun

fauchon m (plural fauchons)

1. falchion

Further reading

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

Old French

Noun

fauchon oblique singular, m (oblique plural fauchons, nominative singular fauchons, nominative plural fauchon)

1. falchion

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fauchon)
• fauchun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub