goutte
See also: goutté
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.
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Noun edit
goutte (plural gouttes)
- (heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.
- 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 832:
- Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules.
Translations edit
heraldic charge
See also edit
- 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 291:
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French goutte, from Old French gote, gute, goute, from Latin gutta. The second t was added back in Middle French to reflect the original Latin spelling.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
goutte f (plural gouttes)
Adverb edit
goutte
- (obsolete or dialectal, used with "ne") not, not at all, not a drop
- Il ne parloit goutte
- He did not talk at all
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Further reading edit
- “goutte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French gote, goutte, gote, gute.
Noun edit
goutte f (plural gouttes)
Descendants edit
- French: goutte