bouclier

French

Face interne du bouclier.

Etymology

Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (shield with a buckle), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.kli.je/
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Noun

bouclier m (plural boucliers)

  1. shield (anything which protects or defends)
    levée de boucliers
    outcry, protest
    (literally, “raising of shields”)
    • 1820, Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of original by Walter Scott:
      Le même portait, en outre, le petit bouclier triangulaire, assez large à son sommet pour protéger la poitrine, et, à partir de là, s’amincissant en pointe.
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