fougasse

Borrowed from French fougasse. Doublet of focaccia.

fougasse (plural fougasses)

1. A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.
2. An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.

   Synonym: fougade

• fougasse (bread) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /fu.ɡas/

From earlier fougade, probably borrowed from Italian fogata (from fogare, from foga), with a change of suffix.

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (military) fougasse (land-mine)

From Middle French fougasse, foucasse, borrowed from Old Occitan fogatza, fogassa, from Vulgar Latin *focācia. Doublet of the inherited fouace.

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (cooking) fougasse (lattice-shaped bread associated with Provence)

• fouace
• feu

• → English: fougasse

• “fougasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• fougasse on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr