turquoise

Greek: τυρκουάζ (tyrkouáz)

Turkish: turkuaz

Romanian: turcoază (stone)

Inherited from Old French turquois, from turc + -ois.


grande parure

fr-noun

grande parure f (plural grandes parures)


jargon

→ Catalan: jargó

→ English: jargoon

→ German: Jargon

→ Greek: γιαρκόν (giarkón)

→ Russian: жарго́н (žargón)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: жаргон

Latin script: žargon, jargon

→ Spanish: jergón

Borrowed from Italian giargone. Doublet of zircon.


bouton

Antillean Creole: bouton

→ Bulgarian: бутон (buton)

→ English: bouton

→ Khmer: ប៊ូតុង (buutong)

→ Malagasy: bokotra

→ Romanian: buton

→ Russian: бутон (buton)

→ Turkish: buton

Inherited from Middle French bouton, boton, from Old French bouton, boton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Frankish *bautō (“that which pushes up, bump, knob”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to beat, push”). By surface analysis, bouter + -on. Cognate with Old High German bōzo (“bundle, flaxbundle”), Old Saxon bōto (“bunch or bundle of flaxs”). Compare Italian bottone, Spanish botón, which are borrowings of the French word.

cog

(pathology, dermatology) pimple, spot, zit


pull

Clipping of pull-over, from English pullover.

Il fait froid; je vais mettre mon pull.

It's cold; I'm going to put on my pullover.


short

Unadapted borrowing from English shorts.

Avec un pantalon, j’ai moins froid aux jambes qu’avec un short.

With trousers on, my legs are not as cold as with shorts on.


sweat

Les sweats à capuche sont interdits dans certains lieux publics en Grande-Bretagne.

Hoodies are prohibited in some places in Great Britain.


quichenotte

Allegedly from Middle English kisse me not, from the use of the cap to discourage English soldiers from dallying with French women during the Hundred Years' War.

a type of women's hat resembling a head scarf, popular in certain areas of France


béret

→ English: beret

→ Greek: μπερές (berés)

→ Polish: beret

→ Romanian: beretă, beret

desctree

→ Russian: бере́т (berét)
→ Georgian: ბერეტი (bereṭi)
→ Kazakh: берет (beret)

→ Turkish: bere

Borrowed from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta, Catalan barret.


bustier

→ English: bustier


mule

Inherited from Old French mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus.


slip

→ Vietnamese: xi-líp


alliance

→ Polish: alians

→ Portuguese: aliança

desctree

→ Russian: алья́нс (alʹjáns), алья́нсъ (alʹjáns) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: ալյանս (alyans)
→ Kazakh: альянс (aläns)

→ Turkish: alyans


bob

From the English personal name Bob, used to designate light infantrymen, and probably introduced into French during the First World War.


jade

→ Catalan: jade

→ English: jade

→ German: Jade

→ Italian: giada

→ Portuguese: jade

→ Romanian: jad

→ Spanish: jade

Rebracketed from earlier l’éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).


limousine

→ Dutch: limousine

→ English: limousine

→ German: Limousine

desc

→ Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine

→ Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: limuzin

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.

(fashion) traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne


lunettes

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: linettes
Haitian Creole: linèt


fez

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فس (fes). Mentioned as bonnet de fez in 1664. By the 19th century the word fez alone stood for the hat.


vêtement

Inherited from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum.


col

→ Hausa: kwal

Inherited from Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.


corset

→ Czech: korzet

→ Danish: korset

→ Dutch: korset

→ Esperanto: korseto

→ Finnish: korsetti

→ German: Korsett

→ Greek: κορσές (korsés)

→ Italian: corsetto

→ Japanese: コルセット (korusetto)

→ Norwegian: korsett

→ Portuguese: corset

→ Russian: корсе́т (korsét)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: корзет

Latin script: korzet

→ Spanish: corsé

→ Swedish: korsett

→ Turkish: korse

→ Persian: کرست (korset)


blush

C’est mon petit boulot, ma tune, mes clopes, mes expressos, mes virées nocturnes, ma lingerie fine, mon Guerlain, mes folies de blush, mes livres de poche, mon cinoche.

1999, Anna Gavalda, “The Opel Touch”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part:

blush (makeup used to redden the cheeks)


chiton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn, “tunic”).


zircon

Borrowed from German Zirkon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargon.


nacre

mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)


quartz

→ Catalan: quars

Borrowed from German Quarz, from a West Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ (“hard”).


blouse

desc

→ Arabic: بَلُوزَة (balūza), بْلُوزَة (blūza)

→ Catalan: brusa

→ Czech: blůza

→ Danish: bluse

desctree

→ Dutch: bloes, blouse
Afrikaans: bloes
Petjo: bloes (archaic)
→ Caribbean Hindustani: blus
→ Caribbean Javanese: blus
→ Indonesian: blus

→ English: blouse
→ Bengali: ব্লাউজ (blauj)
→ Gujarati: બ્લાઉઝ (blāujha)
→ Hindi: ब्लाउज़ (blāuz)
→ Japanese: ブラウス (burausu), ブルーズ (burūzu)
→ Korean: 블라우스 (beullauseu)

→ German: Bluse, Blouse
→ Bulgarian: блу́за (blúza)
→ Hungarian: blúz
→ Macedonian: блуза (bluza)
→ Russian: блу́за (blúza)
→ Serbo-Croatian: blúza

→ German Low German: Bluus

→ Italian: blusa

→ Luxembourgish: Blus

→ Norwegian: bluse

→ Persian: بلوز (boluz, bluz)

→ Polish: bluza

→ Portuguese: blusa

→ Romanian: bluză

→ Spanish: blusa
→ Tagalog: blusa

→ Swedish: blus

→ Turkish: bluz

→ Venetan: bluxa

→ Walloon: blouze

1788, of obscure origin. Three hypotheses are:
* French blousse (“scraps of wool”), from Occitan lano blouso (“pure or short wool”), from blous, blos (“pure, empty, bare”), from Old High German blōz (“naked, bare”) (German bloß (“bare”))
* A conflation of the aforementioned and French bliaud, bliaut (a kind of smock or robe, whence English bliaus, bliaut), from Old French bliau, also from Frankish *blīfald (“topcoat of scarlet colour”), from *blīu (“coloured, bright”) + *fald (“crease, fold”). More at English blee, fold, and bliaut.
* From Medieval Latin pelusia, from Pelusium, a city of Upper Egypt, a clothing manufacturer during the Middle Ages.

der

blouse d’hôpital

uniform or coat with buttons down the front


sarong

→ Romanian: sarong

Borrowed from Dutch saroeng, from Malay sarung.


caftan

kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)


cardigan

→ Romanian: cardigan


knickerbockers

Unadapted borrowing from English knickerbockers.

unadapted borrowing

Il est venu en knickerbockers.
He came in knickerbockers.


knickers

Unadapted borrowing from English knickers, or a clipping of knickerbockers.

Il est venu en knickers.


aube

Inherited from Old French albe, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from Latin albus (“white”).


aube

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba.


aube

Probably from Latin alapa (“blow, slap, smack”), of uncertain origin.


sabot

Inherited from Middle French savate (“old shoe”), of unknown origin. Possibly from Tatar чабата (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish چاپوت (çaput, çapıt, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish چاپمق (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian چپت (čapat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”).
Akin to Norman chavette, Spanish zapato, Italian ciabatta, Portuguese sapato, Sicilian savatta.

cog

ne pas se trouver sous le sabot d’un cheval

ne pas se trouver sous les sabots d’un cheval


anorak

→ Romanian: hanorac

→ Spanish: anorak


robe

→ Dutch: robe

→ German: Robe
→ Czech: róba

→ Romanian: robă f

→ Turkish: rop

Inherited from Old French, from Proto-Germanic *raubō (“booty”), later "stolen clothing".


fraise

→ Arabic: فَرَّاز (farrāz)

→ Dutch: frees

→ English: fraise

→ German: Fräse

→ Belarusian: фрэ́за (fréza)

→ Czech: fréza, frézka

desc

→ Bulgarian: фре́за (fréza), фрез (frez)

→ Macedonian: фреза (freza)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фре́за

Latin script: fréza

→ Slovak: fréz, fréza, frézka

→ Slovene: frẹ̄za

→ Ukrainian: фре́за (fréza)

⇒ German: Fräser

desctree

⇒ German: Fräsmaschine
→ Bulgarian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Russian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
→ Cyrillic script: фрезмашина
→ Latin script: frezmašina

→ Polish: frez

→ Portuguese: fresa

→ Romanian: freză

→ Russian: фреза́ (frezá)

→ Spanish: fresa

→ Swedish: fräs

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرازه (freze)
Turkish: freze

Related to fraiser, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *fresāre, from Latin fresum, past participle of frendō, or from a derived root *fresa. Compare Italian and Spanish fresa.


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).

La plupart avaient des tumeurs, et on se demandait toujours si c’était cancéreux ou pas, quand c’était cancéreux ils mouraient, et on donnait pour la couronne.

1961, Christiane Rochefort, Les petits enfants du siècle, Grasset, page 12:


monocle

→ Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)

→ Dutch: monocle

→ English: monocle

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).


bikini

→ Dutch: bikini

→ English: bikini
→ Norwegian Bokmål: bikini

→ German: Bikini

→ Portuguese: biquíni

→ Spanish: biquini

Named after the place name Bikini, from Bikini, the name of the atoll where the United States tested nuclear weapons in July 1946; it was reckoned that the bathing suit would cause as much excitement as an atom bomb. This name was originally from German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.


turban

→ Danish: turban

→ English: turban

→ German: Turban
→ Serbo-Croatian: tùrbān, ту̀рба̄н

→ Polish: turban

→ Russian: тюрба́н (tjurbán)

→ Swedish: turban

→ Turkish: türban

Inherited from Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish دلبند (tülbent), from Persian دلبند (dolband).


haute couture

English: haute couture


manteau

→ English: manteau, mantua

→ Japanese: マント (manto)

→ Korean: 망토 (mangto)

→ Ottoman Turkish: مانتو (manto)

> Turkish: manto (inherited)

→ Persian: مانتو (mânto)

→ Romanian: manta, mantou

→ Russian: манто (manto)

Inherited from Latin mantellum, diminutive of mantum. Compare Italian mantello.


émeraude

Inherited from Old French esmeralde, esmeragde, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus (“emerald”), from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos, “emerald”), from a Semitic language.


bigouden

a traditional head-dress made of lace from the Pays Bigouden in south west Brittany.


diamant

→ Czech: diamant

→ Romanian: diamant

Inherited from Middle French diamant, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamas, probably from metathesis of adimas (whence aimant), from Latin adamās, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas).


pince-nez

→ Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)

→ Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

→ Swedish: pincené c


LV

English: LV

Coordinate term: LVMH

(fashion) Abbreviation of Louis Vuitton.


bonnet

→ Portuguese: boné

→ Spanish: bonete

→ Turkish: bone

Inherited from Middle French bonet, from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundiją (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni. Cognates: see above, English bonnet. More at over, bundle.


espadrille

→ English: espadrille

→ Tunisian Arabic: سبادري (spēdri)

Borrowed from Occitan espardilha via metathesis, itself from espart (“esparto grass”). Compare Catalan espardenya.


déshabillé

fr-adj

déshabillé (feminine déshabillée, masculine plural déshabillés, feminine plural déshabillées)

déshabillée (feminine)
déshabillés (masculine plural)
déshabillées (feminine plural)


bijou

→ Bulgarian: бижу́ (bižú)

→ Dutch: bijou

→ English: bijou

→ German: Bijou

→ Luxembourgish: Bijou

→ Neapolitan: bisciú

Borrowed from Breton bizoù, bizou (“ring”), from biz (“finger”).


tabard

Inherited from Old French tabart (“simple sleeveless overtunic; heavy overmantel”), of unknown origin.


chasuble

From Old French chesible, from Late Latin casubla, an alteration of Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).


béguin

a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet


maillot de bain

fr-noun

maillot de bain m (plural maillots de bain)

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tailleur

tailleur m (plural tailleurs, feminine tailleuse)

→ English: tailleur

→ Greek: ταγέρ (tagér)

→ Italian: tailleur

→ Romanian: taior

→ Turkish: tayyör


chaperon

From Old French, from chape (“head covering”) as the women who acted as chaperones wore head coverings. Equivalent to chape + -eron. More at English cap, cape.


chapeau

Antillean Creole: chapo

→ Chinook Jargon: siyáputl, siyápo

→ Quileute: tsiyá·pos

→ Choctaw: shʋpo, shapo

→ Galician: chapeu

→ German: Chapeau

→ Hausa: shàpô

desc

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Iberian:

Catalan: xapó

Galician: chapeu

desctree

Portuguese: chapéu; (obsolete) chapeo
→ Konkani: चेपें (cepẽ)
→ Ladino: chapeo
→ Manado Malay: capeo (“hat”)
→ Swahili: chepeo

Spanish: chapeo

→ Jeju: 사포 (sapo)

→ Narragansett: shapú

Inherited from Middle French chappeau m, from Old French chapel m, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus m, diminutive from Late Latin cappa f. The interjection was originally short for chapeau bas.


cravate

→ Gulf Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta)

→ Dutch: kravat

→ English: cravat

→ Galician: gravata

→ German: Krawatte
→ Czech: kravata
→ Danish: kravat
→ Serbo-Croatian: kravata
→ Slovak: kravata
→ Ukrainian: краватка (kravatka)

→ Greek: γραβάτα (graváta)

→ Italian: cravatta
→ Hijazi Arabic: كرفتة (karafitta, karavitta)
→ Spanish: corbata
→ Cebuano: korbata
→ Maranao: korbata
→ Sambali: korbata
→ Tagalog: kurbata
→ Yogad: kurbata

→ Persian: کراوات (kerâvât)

→ Polish: krawat

→ Portuguese: gravata

→ Turkish: kravat

→ Vietnamese: cà vạt

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Hrvat (“Croat”).


foulard

→ English: foulard

→ Italian: foulard

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فولار (fular)
Turkish: fular

→ Romanian: fular

→ Spanish: fular, foulard


bure

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.


gant

→ Greek: γάντι (gánti)

Inherited from Old French guant, from Frankish *want (compare Middle Dutch want, Old High German wantus), from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”). Cognate with Italian guanto, Spanish guante, and Catalan guant.


pantalon

→ Arabic: بَنْطَلُون (banṭalōn)

Hijazi Arabic: بنطلون (banṭalōn)

→ English: pantaloon, pantaloons

→ Urdu: پَتْلُون (patlūn)

→ Persian:

Dari: پتلون (patlān)

→ Italian: pantalone

→ Ottoman Turkish: پانتالون (pantalon), پانطالون (pantalon), پانطولون (pantolon)
Turkish: pantolon, pantalon
→ Albanian: pantallona pl

→ Polish: pantalony

→ Romanian: pantalon

→ Spanish: pantalón
→ Cebuano: pantalon
→ Kapampangan: pantalun
→ Maguindanao: pantalun
→ Murui Huitoto: pataro
→ Tagalog: pantalon

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)bor.
Spanish Pantaleónder.
Italian Pantaloneder.
French pantalon
From Italian Pantalone m, a character from the commedia dell'arte whose hose were portrayed as being down around his feet. The name is traditionally linked to the martyr Saint Pantaleon, from Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn), a name meaning "all-compassionate".


chaussette

From chausse + -ette. Compare Occitan cauceta, Catalan calceta.

laisser tomber comme une vieille chaussette


soutien-gorge

fr-noun

soutien-gorge m (plural soutiens-gorge or soutien-gorges or soutien-gorge)

soutiens-gorge (plural)
soutien-gorges (plural)
soutien-gorge (plural)

see soutien

On était une bonne trentaine, rien que des cadres moyens âgés de vint-cinq à quarante ans. À un moment donné il y a une connasse qui a commencé à se déshabiller. Ella a ôté son T-shirt, puis son soutien-gorge, puis sa jupe, tout ça en faisant des mines incroyables.

1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte:

We were in our thirties, nothing but middle managers aged between twenty-five and forty. At one point there's a bitch who started to get undressed. She took off her t-shirt, then her bra, then her skirt, all while making incredible faces.


casquette

→ Portuguese: casquete, casqueta

→ Russian: кашкет (kašket)

→ Turkish: kasket


collant

fr-adj

collant (feminine collante, masculine plural collants, feminine plural collantes)

collante (feminine)
collants (masculine plural)
collantes (feminine plural)


collant

desc

→ Portuguese: colãs, collants (unadapted form), colã, collant (unadapted form)

(usually in the plural) tights (UK), pantyhose (US)


ceinture

→ Romanian: centură

Inherited from Old French ceinture, inherited from Latin cinctūra.


culotte

→ Japanese: キュロット (kyurotto)

→ Portuguese: culote m, calote m

→ Romanian: chilot m

→ Spanish: culote m

→ Turkish: külot, kilot

Etymology tree
French cul
French -otte
French culotte
From cul m + -otte f. Equivalent to the feminine derivative of culot m.


peignoir

→ English: peignoir

→ Italian: peignoir

→ Russian: пеньюа́р (penʹjuár)

cape (long light clothing used to protect the clothes in e.g. a barber)


jupe

→ Egyptian Arabic: جيبة (žība)

→ German: Jupe

→ Luxembourgish: Jupe

→ Spanish: chupa

→ Galician: chupa

→ Vietnamese: giuýp

Inherited from Middle French jupe, from Old Italian giubba, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba, “long garment”).

There were a good thirty of us, all middle-ranking executives aged between twenty-five and forty. At one point, some stupid bitch started undressing. She took off her T-shirt, then her bra, then her skirt, all while pulling the most incredible faces.


écharpe

→ Arabic:

Egyptian Arabic: ايشارب (ʔišārb)

North Levantine Arabic: ايشارب (ʔišārb)

→ Catalan: xarpa

→ Dutch: sjerp

→ German: Schärpe

→ Italian: sciarpa

→? Low German: scherpe

→ Swedish: skärp

→ Persian: اشارپ (ešârp)

→ Polish: sharfa

→ Portuguese: echarpe, écharpe

→ Serbo-Croatian: ešarpa

→ Spanish: charpa

→ Turkish: eşarp

Inherited from Middle French escharpe, escherpe, from Old French escharpe, escherpe, eskerpe, eschreppe, escreppe (“small bag, satchel”).


pyjama

→ Romanian: pijama

→ Turkish: pijama

English pyjama, from Urdu پایجامه (pāyjāma) / Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā), from Persian پایجامه (pâyjâma) / پاجامه (pâjâma, “leg garment”).


cache-sexe

From cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).


cotillon

English: cotillon, cotillion

From cotte (“dress”) + -illon (“diminutive”) + (alt. -ille + -on).


broche

→ Dutch: broche
→ Indonesian: bros

→ German: Brosche

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: بروش (broş)
Turkish: broş

→ Portuguese: broche

→ Romanian: broșă

→ Russian: брошь (brošʹ)
→ Armenian: բրոշ (broš)
→ Georgian: ბროში (broši)

→ Spanish: broche

Inherited from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish, compare Old Irish brog (“awl”).


maillot

→ Catalan: mallot

→ Dutch: maillot

→ English: maillot

→ Greek: μαγιό (magió)

Haitian Creole: mayo

→ Hijazi Arabic: مايوه (māyō)

→ Portuguese: maiô

→ Romanian: maiou, maieu

→ Spanish: maillot

→ Turkish: mayo

→ Vietnamese: áo may ô, may ô

Se faire épiler le maillot.


crampon

→ English: crampon

→ Romanian: crampon

→ Spanish: crampón

→ Turkish: krampon


boucle

→ Catalan: bucle m

→ Esperanto: buklo

→ Galician: bucle

→ Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)

→ Portuguese: bucle

→ Romanian: buclă

→ Russian: бу́кля (búklja)

→ Spanish: bucle m

→ Turkish: bukle

Inherited from Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.


braies

From Latin brācae (or brācas), plural of brāca, from Transalpine Gaulish [Term?].


veste

→ English: vest

→ German: Weste

→ Serbo-Croatian: vesta


perruque

→ Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)

→ Catalan: perruca

→ Czech: paruka

→ Danish: paryk

→ German: Perücke

→ Greek: περούκα (peroúka)

→ English: periwig

→ English: peruke

→ English: wig

→ Esperanto: peruko

→ Spanish: peluca

→ Estonian: parukas

→ Finnish: peruukki

→ Galician: perruca

→ Ido: peruko

→ Italian: parrucca

→ Luxembourgish: Parréck

→ Lithuanian: perukas

→ Latvian: parūka

→ Macedonian: перика (perika)

→ Dutch: pruik

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk

→ Norwegian: parykk

→ Plautdietsch: Pruck

→ Polish: peruka

→ Portuguese: peruca

→ Romanian: perucă

→ Turkish: peruk

→ Russian: парик (parik)

→ Azerbaijani: parik

→ Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)

→ Turkmen: parik

→ Uzbek: parik

Probably borrowed from western Lombard perrucca, parrucca. Compare the phonetic changes of intervocalic -L- into -R- of Italian parlare and Sicilian parrari.


crampons

studs (shoes with studs on the bottom to aid grip)


bandeau

→ English: bandeau

From Old French bandel (from bande + -el).

(Toulouse, now historical) a tight headband worn for a long time, usually from youth, for the ancient folk custom of cranial deformation


chopine

From Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín.

(footwear) chopine (type of platform shoe)


papillon

→ Greek: παπιγιόν (papigión)

→ Romanian: papion

→ Turkish: papyon

From Old French papeillon (12th c.), byform of paveillon, whence the modern doublet pavillon (“pavilion”). Both from Latin pāpiliōnem. The form with recovered -p- may be semi-learned, but has also been explained as a native development due to onomatopoeia. Another possibility would be influence by a hypothetical Old French *parpeillon, from Vulgar Latin *parpiliōnem (cf. Occitan parpalhon). The swimming sense is a semantic loan from English.

Le grand papillon noir, c’est la coiffure du pays. Coiffure gracieuse. De larges rubans de soie noire ajustés en cocarde sur le front, […] derrière laquelle les cheveux tombent sur le dos en deux longues nattes.


barrette

→ English: barrette

→ Turkish: baret


barrette

→ Portuguese: barrete


chape

Inherited from Old French chape, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cape.


combiné

→ Turkish: kombi


bague

Sango: bâge

Inherited from Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin, but probably related to Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, circlet”).
Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch, ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”) (also from the Proto-Germanic).
Another theory proposes a derivation from Latin baca (“berry”), plausible semantically, and comparable to Catalan baga (“ring”).


manipule

(Ancient Rome, military, Christianity) a maniple


corsage

→ English: corsage


crinoline

From Latin crinis (“hair”) + linum (“flax”).


tricot

→ Catalan: tricot

→ Czech: triko

→ English: tricot

→ German: Trikot

→ Greek: τρίκο (tríko)

→ Italian: tricot

→ Ottoman Turkish: تریقو (triko)

→ Turkish: triko

→ Polish: trykot

→ Portuguese: tricô

→ Romanian: tricot

→ Spanish: tricot


fichu

→ English: fichu

Past participle of ficher (various senses). Also a minced oath for foutu.


fichu

fr-adj

fichu (feminine fichue, masculine plural fichus, feminine plural fichues)

fichue (feminine)
fichus (masculine plural)
fichues (feminine plural)

(colloquial) put together, rigged out, got up


après-ski

snowboot (a water-resistant type of footwear)


dessous

From Latin dē (“from”) + subtus (“beneath”), corresponding to de (“from”) + sous (“beneath”) in French. Compare Italian di sotto, Romanian dedesubt.

Elle a osé montrer ses dessous en plein air.

She dared show her undies out in the open.


camisole

→ English: camisole

Borrowed from Old Occitan camisola. Compare Portuguese camisola.

Les fenêtres étaient ouvertes. Les camisoles, raidies par le vent, qui y séchaient, se balançaient comme des enseignes de tôle.

The windows were open. The wind-stiffened camisoles which were drying there swung back and forth like sheet-metal shop signs.

(dated outside Quebec and Switzerland) camisole (short, sleeveless undergarment)


jupon

→ Japanese: ズボン (zubon)

→ Polish: żupan

→ Romanian: jupon

Inherited from Middle French jupon. By surface analysis, jupe + -on.


soutane

→ Dutch: soutane

→ English: soutane

→ German: Soutane

→ Polish: sutanna

→ Russian: сутана (sutana)

(figurative) Roman Catholic priesthood, the Roman Catholic Church or institutions.


caleçon

→ Greek: καλσόν (kalsón)

→ Esperanto: kalsono

Louisiana Creole: caneçon

→ Swedish: kalsonger

→ Japanese: カルソン

Borrowed from Italian calzone, with an excrescent schwa (cf. the form calçon, attested in the sixteenth century). Doublet of chausson, an inherited form.

Ce qui me le fit mettre dans les poches de mon caleçon de bain...

1903, Jules Garçon, editor, Encyclopédie Universelle Des Industries Tinctoriales, page 199:

Which made me put it in the pockets of my swimming trunks...

Un caleçon minuscule.

1965, François Mauriac, Nouveaux Mémoires, Flammarion, page 905:


galoche

→ Czech: galoše

→ Danish: galoche

→ German: Galosche

→ Italian: caloscia, galoscia

→ Latvian: galoša

→ Polish: kalosz

→ Romanian: galoș

→ Turkish: galoş

→ Persian: گالش (gâloš)

→ Swedish: galosch

Of unclear origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *calopia, from calopodia, from Ancient Greek κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's last”). Alternatively from a Vulgar Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (“Gallic shoe”). Other origins have also been proposed.


babouche

→ English: babouche

Inherited from Middle French papouch, babuc, from Ottoman Turkish پاپوش (papuş), from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”). Compare Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš).

cog

Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš)

Ensuite, il a traîné ses babouches sur le bois autrefois verni et il s’est arrêté sur le pas de sa porte pour dire à mi-voix, comme s’il se parlait à lui-même :[…]

2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

Then, he dragged his oriental slippers along the once-varnished wood and stopped at his doorstop to say, in a low voice, as if he were talking to himself: […]


complet

desctree

→ German: komplett
→ Hungarian: komplett

→ Polish: komplet

→ Turkish: komple

→ Persian: کمپلت (komplet)

→ Vietnamese: com-lê


chausson

→ Spanish: sosón


pantoufle

→ Danish: tøffel (“slipper”)

→ Norwegian: tøffel

→ Swedish: toffel (“slipper”)

→ Latvian: tupele

Inherited from Middle French pantofle, pantophle, pantouffle, pantoufle, pantouphle, of unclear origin, often considered to be from Italian pantofola.


ambre

Inherited from Middle French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).


toge

From Middle French togue, from Latin toga.


bésicles

(plural only, dated or colloquial) Alternative spelling of besicles


besicles

From Old French bericles, from beryl, which served to make magnifying glasses.

(plural only, dated or colloquial) spectacles, glasses


burqa

burka (a garment that covers the whole body)


feutre

Inherited from Old French feltre, from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-Germanic *filtizō, *felt (compare Old English felt).


porte-jarretelles

fr-noun

porte-jarretelles m (plural porte-jarretelles)


ruche

→ English: ruche

→ German: Rüsche

→ Italian: ruche

→ Polish: riusza

Inherited from Middle French rusche, from Medieval Latin rusca (“bark”), from Gaulish *ruskā, from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”).
Compare Breton rusk, Irish rúsc, Welsh rhisgl and Catalan rusc.

(textiles, fashion) ruffle; flounce; ruche


soulier

Inherited from Old French soler, from Late Latin subtelāris.

Les habits, qui pèsent sur mes mollets, sont plats, tièdes d’un côté seulement. Les lacets de mes souliers n’ont plus de ferrets.

1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis, archived from the original on 2019-05-27:

The clothes, which weigh on my calves, are flat, warm on only one side. The laces of my shoes no longer have aglets.

(dated outside North America, footwear) shoe, boot (protective covering for the foot)

dated outside North America; footwear; dated outside North America; footwear


porte-jaja

(slang) suspender belt (UK), garter belt (US)


jaquette

→ Hijazi Arabic: جكيت (jakēt, jikēt)

desc

→ Moroccan Arabic: جاكيطة (jākīṭa), جكيطة (jakīṭa)

→ Persian: ژاکت (žâkat)

→ Portuguese: jaqueta

Inherited from Old French jaquet, diminutive of jaque.


guêpière

From guêpe + -ière, after the phrase taille de guêpe.


jupette

→ English: jupette


mortier

Inherited from Old French mortier, inherited from Latin mortārium.

mortarboard (academic's ceremonial headgear) [from 1461]


tatouage

→ Catalan: tatuatge

→ Esperanto: tatuaĵo

→ Galician: tatuaxe

→ Greek: τατουάζ (tatouáz)

→ Italian: tatuaggio

→ Polish: tatuaż

→ Portuguese: tatuagem

→ Romanian: tatuaj

→ Serbo-Croatian: tetovaža

→ Spanish: tatuaje


paletot

→ Bulgarian: палто (palto), ⇒ балтон (balton)

→ Catalan: paltó

→ English: paletot

→ German: Paletot

→ Greek: παλτό (paltó)

→ Ottoman Turkish: پالطو (palto)

> Turkish: palto (inherited)

→ Persian: پالتو (pâlto)

→ Polish: palto

→ Portuguese: paletó

→ Romanian: palton

→ Russian: пальто (palʹto) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: paltó

→ Ukrainian: пальто (palʹto)

Inherited from Middle French paltoke, paletoc, from Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.


rouge à lèvres

fr-noun

rouge à lèvres m (plural rouges à lèvres)

desc

→ Persian: رژ لب (rož-e lab) (partial calque)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-rouge à lèvres.wav


lunettes de soleil

LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-lunettes de soleil.wav


bottine

→ Russian: ботинок (botinok)

→ Kazakh: бәтеңке (bäteñke)

→ Tajik: ботинка (botinka)

→ Uzbek: botinka

→ Turkmen: botinka

→ Bulgarian: бота (bota)

→ Romanian: botină, botuș

→ Bulgarian: ботуш (botuš)

→ Persian: پوتین (putin)

→ Northern Kurdish: putîn

→ Finnish: patiini


nuisette

(very short) nightie, nightdress, baby-doll dress


pardessus

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاردسو (pardösü)
Turkish: pardösü

→ Persian: پاردسو (pârdesu)

→ Romanian: pardesiu

→ Vietnamese: ba-đờ-xuy


carmagnole

→ Albanian: karamanjollë (“guillotine”)

→ English: carmagnole

desc

→ Greek: καρμανιόλα (karmanióla, “guillotine”)

Named after Carmagnole, the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.

(historical, clothing) carmagnole (short jacket fashionable during the French Revolution)


sandale

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Ecclesiastical Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”).


soufflet

From souffler + -et. Compare Italian soffietto.


tunique

→ Romanian: tunică

→ Turkish: tunik

Inherited from Middle French tunique, from Old French tunique, borrowed from Latin tunica.

Il y a beaucoup idées dans sa collection : mini-robe bustier à micro-œillets, tunique façon combinaison de moto, combishort en éponge, jupe en maille métallique… le créateur va devoir choisir quelques codes forts et précis pour fédérer durablement.

2015 October 2, “Les tribus de la mode”, in Le Monde:


calotte

→ Catalan: calota

→ English: calotte

→ German: Kalotte

→ Italian: calotta

→ Portuguese: calota, calote

→ Spanish: galota, galocha

Borrowed from Old Occitan calotta, calota, either an extension of French cale (“a kind of bonnet”), or from Arabic كَلُّوتَة (kallūta, “a headdress consisting of a small cap with a giant turban, or only the small cap”). See also French calot and Latin calautica, kinds of caps.

der

zucchetto (skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)


cache-œil

fr-noun

cache-œil m (plural cache-œil or cache-œils)


bonnet de nuit

bonnet de nuit m (plural bonnets de nuit)

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-bonnet de nuit.wav


boucle d'oreille

boucle d’oreille f (plural boucles d’oreille)

boucle d’ oreille (canonical feminine)
boucles d’oreille (plural)


chemisette

→ English: chemisette


tricot de corps

tricot de corps m (plural tricots de corps)


liseuse

A Young Girl Reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
fr:liseuse (homonymie)

Derived from lire (“to read”) + -euse, the word is feminine form of liseur (“reader”).

a nightgown, a bedjacket, a garment useful when reading in bed


abacost

Contraction of the political slogan à bas le costume! (“down with the suit!”).


négligé

→ Italian: négligé

→ Polish: negliż


robe de chambre

robe de chambre f (plural robes de chambre)

→ Catalan: xambra

→ English: robe de chambre

→ Persian: رب دوشامبر (rob došâmbr)

→ Portuguese: robe

→ Spanish: chambra

→ Turkish: ropdöşambır

/ʁɔb də ʃɑ̃bʁ/


grenat

Portuguese: grená

Probably derived from Old French pomme grenate or grenate (“pomegranate”), due to the red color.


mi-bas

(for women) pop sock(s) (UK), knee-high(s) (US)


vernis à ongles

vernis à ongles m (plural vernis à ongles)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-vernis à ongles.wav


rubis

Inherited from Old French rubi, rubin, borrowed from Medieval Latin rubinus, from Latin rubeus.


saphir

→ Romanian: safir n

→ Turkish: safir


blouson

→ English: blouson

→ Greek: μπλουζόν n (blouzón)

→ Romanian: bluzon


bas à jour

open-worked stocking
open-worked stocking

(historical) openwork stocking(s), open-worked stocking(s)


savate

Inherited from Middle French savate (“old shoe”), from Old French chavate, çavate, of unknown origin shared with Spanish zapato. Possibly from Tatar чабата (çabata, “overshoes”), ultimately either from Ottoman Turkish چاپوت (çaput, çapıt, “patchwork, tatters”), from Ottoman Turkish چاپمق (çapmak, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, cognate with modern Persian چپت (čapat, “a kind of traditional leather shoe”). Doublet of sabot.


pagne

→ English: pagne

Borrowed from Spanish paño, from Latin pannus. Doublet of pan.


moufle

Inherited from Middle French moufle, from Old French mofle (“thick glove”), from Medieval Latin muffula (817, Carolingian), a Germanic borrowing from Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”), from *mol (“softened, forworn”) + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“tender, soft”) + *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”). Compare modern Dutch moffel.


boubou

→ English: boubou


combinaison

→ Greek: κομπινεζόν (kompinezón)

→ Polish: kombinezon

→ Romanian: combinezon

→ Russian: комбинезо́н (kombinezón)

→ Turkish: kombinezon

From the verb combiner + -aison, modeled after or borrowed from Late Latin combīnātiōnem.


capuchon

→ Hebrew: קַפּוּצ׳וֹן (kapuchón)

→ Dutch: capuchon

→ Russian: капюшо́н (kapjušón)

→ Swedish: kapuschong

→ Turkish: kapüşon

a hood, which may be attached to a cape, permanently or detachable


tchador

chador (a loose robe worn by Muslim women)


képi

→ Dutch: kepie

→ English: kepi

→ Italian: chepì

→ Portuguese: quepe, quépi (Portugal)

→ Romanian: chipiu

→ Russian: кепи (kepi)

→ Spanish: quepí, quepis

Borrowed from Alemannic German Käppi, compare German Kappe.

On descend à chaque instant du trottoir, à cause de la foule. Au milieu de la rue se trouve un commissariat, avec des agents sans képi et des bicyclettes à la porte.


socquette

→ Portuguese: soquete


topaze

From Latin topazus, from Koine Greek τόπαζος (tópazos), variant of τοπάζιον (topázion).


hoqueton

From Andalusian Arabic القطن (al-quṭun, “cotton”).


cotte-hardie

From Old French cote-hardie, from cote (“coat”) + hardie (“hardy”).


petite culotte

fr-noun

petite culotte f (plural petites culottes)

Literally, “small trousers”, although culotte has since been replaced by pantalon.


haut-de-chausses

haut-de-chausses m (plural hauts-de-chausses)


savetier

savetier m (plural savetiers, feminine savetière)


cafetan

kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)


pull-over

→ Romanian: pulover


maillot vert

(cycling) green jersey (shirt worn by the leader in the Tour de France points competition)


maillot jaune

maillot jaune m (plural maillots jaunes)

(cycling) yellow jersey (shirt worn by the leader in the Tour de France)


gorgerette

/ɡɔʁ.ʒə.ʁɛt/


cosmétique

→ Dutch: cosmetiek

→ Indonesian: kosmetik, kasmutik

→ Ottoman Turkish: قوزمتیك (kozmetik)

Turkish: kozmetik

→ Persian: ماتیک (mâtik)

From Ancient Greek κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”), from κόσμος (kósmos, “world, universe”).


brodequin

[S]on brodequin de soie dessinait la petitesse de son pied.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome III : Marius, book 6:

[H]er silken shoe outlined the smallness of her foot.


étole

Inherited from Old French estole, borrowed from Latin stola.


chemise de nuit

chemise de nuit f (plural chemises de nuit)


pantacourt

capri pants, capris (casual pants for women)


étoffer

étoffer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
étoffant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étoffé (participle past)
étoffe (first-person indicative present singular)
étoffes (indicative present second-person singular)
étoffe (indicative present singular third-person)
étoffons (first-person indicative plural present)
étoffez (indicative plural present second-person)
étoffent (indicative plural present third-person)
étoffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
étoffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
étoffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
étoffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
étoffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
étoffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
étoffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
étoffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
étoffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
étoffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
étoffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
étoffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
étofferai (first-person future indicative singular)
étofferas (future indicative second-person singular)
étoffera (future indicative singular third-person)
étofferons (first-person future indicative plural)
étofferez (future indicative plural second-person)
étofferont (future indicative plural third-person)
étofferais (conditional first-person singular)
étofferais (conditional second-person singular)
étofferait (conditional singular third-person)
étofferions (conditional first-person plural)
étofferiez (conditional plural second-person)
étofferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
étoffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
étoffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
étoffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
étoffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
étoffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
étoffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
étoffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
étoffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
étoffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
étoffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
étoffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
étoffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
étoffe (imperative second-person singular)
étoffons (first-person imperative plural)
étoffez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French estoffer, from Old French estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is needed, equip, decorate”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to stuff”). Doublet of stopper.


déguisement

une fête à déguisements


redresse-seins

fr-noun

redresse-seins m (plural redresse-seins)


coqueluche

From earlier coqueluchon (“a kind of monk's cowl or hood”), from Italian coccolucio, from Latin cucullus (“hood”). Sufferers of the 1510 influenza pandemic would wear a hood resembling the coqueluchon. The spelling and/or "whooping cough" sense may have been influenced by coq (“rooster”), from the cough evoking a rooster's crow.

vol coqueluche

treatment method for treating whooping cough symptoms

(figurative) craze, bug (something that "sweeps the nation")


calotte glaciaire

calotte glaciaire f (plural calottes glaciaires)


surplis

Inherited from Old French surpeliz, from Medieval Latin superpelliceum.


oculaire

Borrowed from Latin oculāris, from oculus (whence œil).

un témoin oculaire

une saccade oculaire


heaume

Inherited from Old French helme, from Early Medieval Latin helmus, from Frankish *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.


guêtre

→ Alemannic German: Geete

→ English: gaiter

→ Italian: ghetta
→ Romanian: gheată

→ Persian: گتر (getr)

→ Romanian: ghetră

desctree

→ Russian: ге́тра (gétra)
→ Armenian: գետրի (getri)

→ Ukrainian: ге́тра (hétra)

Inherited from Middle French guietres pl, from Old French guestes pl, from Frankish *wrist (“instep”). Compare Middle Dutch gewreste, German Rist, Icelandic rist (“instep; grate; grille”).


gamache

→ Belarusian: гама́ш (hamáš)

→ Czech: gamaše f pl

→ Danish: gamache

→ German: Gamasche

→ Russian: гама́ша (gamáša)

→ Georgian: გამაში (gamaši)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: гама̀ша

Latin script: gamàša

→ Slovene: gamaša

→ Ukrainian: гама́ша (hamáša)

Borrowed from Occitan gamacha, from Spanish guademecí, from Arabic غَدَامِسِيّ (ḡadāmisiyy, “related to the town of غَدَامِس (ḡadāmis) in Tripolitania”).

der

related to the town of <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar">غَدَامِس</i> (ḡadāmis) in Tripolitania


caraco

Uncertain, maybe from Mexican Spanish caracol or from Turkish kerake or keriki.


casaquin

From Middle French cazaquin. By surface analysis, casaque + -in or casaque + -quin.


enchâsser

enchâsser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enchâssant (gerund participle present)
enchâssant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enchâssé (participle past)
enchâssé (participle past)
enchâsse (first-person indicative present singular)
enchâsse (first-person indicative present singular)
enchâsses (indicative present second-person singular)
enchâsses (indicative present second-person singular)
enchâsse (indicative present singular third-person)
enchâsse (indicative present singular third-person)
enchâssons (first-person indicative plural present)
enchâssons (first-person indicative plural present)
enchâssez (indicative plural present second-person)
enchâssez (indicative plural present second-person)
enchâssent (indicative plural present third-person)
enchâssent (indicative plural present third-person)
enchâssais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enchâssais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enchâssais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enchâssais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enchâssait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enchâssait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enchâssions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enchâssions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enchâssiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enchâssiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enchâssaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enchâssaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enchâssai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enchâssai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enchâssas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enchâssas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enchâssa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enchâssa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enchâssâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enchâssâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enchâssâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enchâssâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enchâssèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enchâssèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enchâsserai (first-person future indicative singular)
enchâsserai (first-person future indicative singular)
enchâsseras (future indicative second-person singular)
enchâsseras (future indicative second-person singular)
enchâssera (future indicative singular third-person)
enchâssera (future indicative singular third-person)
enchâsserons (first-person future indicative plural)
enchâsserons (first-person future indicative plural)
enchâsserez (future indicative plural second-person)
enchâsserez (future indicative plural second-person)
enchâsseront (future indicative plural third-person)
enchâsseront (future indicative plural third-person)
enchâsserais (conditional first-person singular)
enchâsserais (conditional first-person singular)
enchâsserais (conditional second-person singular)
enchâsserais (conditional second-person singular)
enchâsserait (conditional singular third-person)
enchâsserait (conditional singular third-person)
enchâsserions (conditional first-person plural)
enchâsserions (conditional first-person plural)
enchâsseriez (conditional plural second-person)
enchâsseriez (conditional plural second-person)
enchâsseraient (conditional plural third-person)
enchâsseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enchâsse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enchâsse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enchâsses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enchâsses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enchâsse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enchâsse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enchâssions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enchâssions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enchâssiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enchâssiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enchâssent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enchâssent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enchâssasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enchâssasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enchâssasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enchâssasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enchâssât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enchâssât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enchâssassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enchâssassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enchâssassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enchâssassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enchâssassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enchâssassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enchâsse (imperative second-person singular)
enchâsse (imperative second-person singular)
enchâssons (first-person imperative plural)
enchâssons (first-person imperative plural)
enchâssez (imperative plural second-person)
enchâssez (imperative plural second-person)

From en- + châsse + -er. Compare the similarly built verb encaisser.

(transitive, jewelry) to set (place inside a case)


brogane

Possibly from Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”) + -án (diminutive).


emmancher

emmancher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
emmanchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
emmanché (participle past)
emmanche (first-person indicative present singular)
emmanches (indicative present second-person singular)
emmanche (indicative present singular third-person)
emmanchons (first-person indicative plural present)
emmanchez (indicative plural present second-person)
emmanchent (indicative plural present third-person)
emmanchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
emmanchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
emmanchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
emmanchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
emmanchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
emmanchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
emmanchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
emmanchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
emmancha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
emmanchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
emmanchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
emmanchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
emmancherai (first-person future indicative singular)
emmancheras (future indicative second-person singular)
emmanchera (future indicative singular third-person)
emmancherons (first-person future indicative plural)
emmancherez (future indicative plural second-person)
emmancheront (future indicative plural third-person)
emmancherais (conditional first-person singular)
emmancherais (conditional second-person singular)
emmancherait (conditional singular third-person)
emmancherions (conditional first-person plural)
emmancheriez (conditional plural second-person)
emmancheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
emmanche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
emmanches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
emmanche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
emmanchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
emmanchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
emmanchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
emmanchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
emmanchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
emmanchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
emmanchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
emmanchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
emmanchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
emmanche (imperative second-person singular)
emmanchons (first-person imperative plural)
emmanchez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive) to get going, start up, set about, commence


débardeur

Georgetown pète le champagne, y’a du son, y’a des go et le sunshine
Tu vois y’a pas de fringues, en caleçon et débardeurs
Avec une bande de démarreurs, des go qui me disent “t’es speed comme Schumacher”

1998, “Agrévolution”, in Ol Kainry (lyrics), Ce n’est que l’début, performed by Agression Verbale:


barbe de trois jours

fr-noun

barbe de trois jours f (plural barbes de trois jours)

designer stubble (fashionable short growth of male facial hair)


robe de mariée

robe de mariée f (plural robes de mariée)

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wedding dress (the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony)


talon aiguille

talon aiguille m (plural talons aiguilles or talons aiguille)

talons aiguilles (plural)
talons aiguille (plural)

stiletto heel (heel of a high and narrow shoe)


améthyste

Persian: آمیتیست (âmitist)

Inherited from Old French ametiste, from Latin amethystus.


hyacinthe

desctree

→ German: Hyazinthe
→ Russian: гиаци́нт (giacínt)

From Latin hyacinthus. Doublet of jacinthe.


broigne

Inherited from Old French bronie, from Early Medieval Latin brunia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Frankish *brunnjā, from Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ (“breastplate”).

(historical) jerkin of canvas or leather covered with metal pieces, ancestor of chain mail


gandoura

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic قَنْدُورَة (qandūra).


endimancher

endimancher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
endimanchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
endimanché (participle past)
endimanche (first-person indicative present singular)
endimanches (indicative present second-person singular)
endimanche (indicative present singular third-person)
endimanchons (first-person indicative plural present)
endimanchez (indicative plural present second-person)
endimanchent (indicative plural present third-person)
endimanchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
endimanchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
endimanchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
endimanchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
endimanchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
endimanchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
endimanchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
endimanchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
endimancha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
endimanchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
endimanchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
endimanchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
endimancherai (first-person future indicative singular)
endimancheras (future indicative second-person singular)
endimanchera (future indicative singular third-person)
endimancherons (first-person future indicative plural)
endimancherez (future indicative plural second-person)
endimancheront (future indicative plural third-person)
endimancherais (conditional first-person singular)
endimancherais (conditional second-person singular)
endimancherait (conditional singular third-person)
endimancherions (conditional first-person plural)
endimancheriez (conditional plural second-person)
endimancheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
endimanche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
endimanches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
endimanche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
endimanchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
endimanchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
endimanchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
endimanchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
endimanchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
endimanchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
endimanchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
endimanchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
endimanchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
endimanche (imperative second-person singular)
endimanchons (first-person imperative plural)
endimanchez (imperative plural second-person)
s'endimancher (infinitive)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
s’endimanchant (gerund participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
endimanché (participle past)
m’endimanche (first-person indicative present singular)
t’endimanches (indicative present second-person singular)
s’endimanche (indicative present singular third-person)
nous endimanchons (first-person indicative plural present)
vous endimanchez (indicative plural present second-person)
s’endimanchent (indicative plural present third-person)
m’endimanchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
t’endimanchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
s’endimanchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nous endimanchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vous endimanchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
s’endimanchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
m’endimanchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
t’endimanchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
s’endimancha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
nous endimanchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vous endimanchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
s’endimanchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
m’endimancherai (first-person future indicative singular)
t’endimancheras (future indicative second-person singular)
s’endimanchera (future indicative singular third-person)
nous endimancherons (first-person future indicative plural)
vous endimancherez (future indicative plural second-person)
s’endimancheront (future indicative plural third-person)
m’endimancherais (conditional first-person singular)
t’endimancherais (conditional second-person singular)
s’endimancherait (conditional singular third-person)
nous endimancherions (conditional first-person plural)
vous endimancheriez (conditional plural second-person)
s’endimancheraient (conditional plural third-person)
past historic of être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
m’endimanche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
t’endimanches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
s’endimanche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nous endimanchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vous endimanchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
s’endimanchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
m’endimanchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
t’endimanchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
s’endimanchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nous endimanchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vous endimanchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
s’endimanchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
endimanche-toi (imperative second-person singular)
endimanchons-nous (first-person imperative plural)
endimanchez-vous (imperative plural second-person)

→ English: endimanched

→ German: endimanchiert

Une heure après, la Cibot s’endimancha, partit en milord, au grand étonnement de Rémonencq et se promit de représenter dignement la femme de confiance des deux Casse-noisettes dans tous les pensionnats, chez toutes les personnes où se trouvaient les écolières des deux musiciens.

1847, Honoré de Balzac, translated by William Walton, Cousin Pons:

An hour later the Cibot, in her Sunday best, departed in great state, to the amazement of Rémonencq, promising herself to represent, in a suitable manner, the confidential housekeeper of the two Nut-crackers in all the boarding-schools and to all the private pupils of the two musicians.

J’ai deux complets : celui que je mets tous les jours et un autre qui a l’avantage d’être noir. J’hésitai à revêtir ce dernier ; je ne savais pas si M. Lacaze aimait mieux que j’eusse l’air pauvre ou bien que, pour lui, je me fusse endimanché.

1924, Emmanuel Bove, translated by Janet Louth, Mes Amis [My Friends]:

I have two suits: the one I wear every day, and another which has the advantage of being black. I hesitated to put on the latter; I did not know whether Monsieur Lacaze would prefer me to look poor or whether he would be glad I had dressed my best for him.

(pronominal) to dress up in one's Sunday best


fond de teint

fr-noun

fond de teint m (usually uncountable, plural fonds de teint)

desc

→ Greek: φον ντε τεν n (fon nte ten, “foundation”)

→ Turkish: fondöten

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jupe-crayon

fr-noun

jupe-crayon f (plural jupe-crayon or jupes-crayon)

jupe-crayon (plural)
jupes-crayon (plural)


soutif

Clipping of soutien-gorge with an otherwise unknown suffix.


aigue-marine

aigue-marine f (plural aigue-marines or aigues-marines)

aigue-marines (plural)
aigues-marines (plural)


cristal de roche

cristal de roche m (plural cristaux de roche)

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houppelande

Probably an adaptation of Old English hop-pada.

(historical) houppelande, greatcoat, cloak


diadème

Borrowed from Latin diadēma, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).


doudoune

(informal, clothing) parka, anorak, down jacket, puffer jacket


pendentif

→ English: pendentive

→ German: Pendentif

→ Romanian: pandantiv


calot

Attested since the 18th century, but of uncertain origin; possibly from Latin calō (“military servant, soldier”).


casaque

→ Catalan: casaca

→ English: cassock

→ Turkish: kazak

Probably from Italian casacca (“jacket, coat”).


emmanchure

/ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃyʁ/


sayon

une froide averse d’automne éclata brusquement, et se déchargea à torrents dans la cour carrée, sur les têtes découvertes, sur les membres nus des galériens, sur leurs misérables sayons étalés sur le pavé.

1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné, section XIII:

A cold autumn shower suddenly broke out, and poured torrentially down on the little square, on the uncovered heads and naked limbs of the convicts, on their miserable cassocks spread out on the cobblestones.


péplum

→ English: peplum

→ Spanish: péplum

Borrowed from Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλων (péplōn), neuter of πέπλος (péplos).


poudrier

desc

Greek: πουδριέρα f (poudriéra, “powder box”)


sapeur

Inherited from Middle French sappeur. By surface analysis, saper + -eur.


sapeur

fr-noun

sapeur m (plural sapeurs, feminine sapeuse)

From sape + -eur. In the context of La Sape, the word is also treated as an initialism of Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes ("Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People").

(Africa) a member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance


pièce d'estomac

pièce d’estomac f (plural pièces d’estomac)

pièce d’ estomac (canonical feminine)
pièces d’estomac (plural)

Madame Magloire avait [...] un tablier de toile de coton à carreaux rouges et verts, noué à la ceinture d’un ruban vert, avec pièce d’estomac pareille rattachée par deux épingles aux deux coins d’en haut, aux pieds de gros souliers et des bas jaunes comme les femmes de Marseille.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 2:

Madame Magloire had on a cotton apron with red and green checks, knotted at the belt with a green ribbon, with a stomacher likewise attached by two hairpins at the two top corners; on her feet, large slippers and yellow stockings like the women of Marseille.


céruse

English: ceruse

From Latin cērusa, variant of cērussa, q.v.


à l'oiseau royal

(historical, fashion) feathered, plumed, crested


duffel-coat

1952, borrowed from English duffel coat.


faluche

a type of dense white bread from northern France


cafignon

(Switzerland) slippers, particularly slippers that are closed at the back


dalmatique

Inherited from Middle French dalmatique, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin dalmatica.


linge de corps

/lɛ̃ʒ də kɔʁ/


serre-jarretelles

serre-jarretelles m (plural serre-jarretelles)

(rare) suspender belt (UK), garter belt (US)


tarbouche

uder

Arabic طَرْبُوش (ṭarbūš)


enchatonner

enchatonner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enchatonnant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enchatonné (participle past)
enchatonne (first-person indicative present singular)
enchatonnes (indicative present second-person singular)
enchatonne (indicative present singular third-person)
enchatonnons (first-person indicative plural present)
enchatonnez (indicative plural present second-person)
enchatonnent (indicative plural present third-person)
enchatonnais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enchatonnais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enchatonnait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enchatonnions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enchatonniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enchatonnaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enchatonnai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enchatonnas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enchatonna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enchatonnâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enchatonnâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enchatonnèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enchatonnerai (first-person future indicative singular)
enchatonneras (future indicative second-person singular)
enchatonnera (future indicative singular third-person)
enchatonnerons (first-person future indicative plural)
enchatonnerez (future indicative plural second-person)
enchatonneront (future indicative plural third-person)
enchatonnerais (conditional first-person singular)
enchatonnerais (conditional second-person singular)
enchatonnerait (conditional singular third-person)
enchatonnerions (conditional first-person plural)
enchatonneriez (conditional plural second-person)
enchatonneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enchatonne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enchatonnes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enchatonne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enchatonnions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enchatonniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enchatonnent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enchatonnasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enchatonnasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enchatonnât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enchatonnassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enchatonnassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enchatonnassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enchatonne (imperative second-person singular)
enchatonnons (first-person imperative plural)
enchatonnez (imperative plural second-person)

(jewelry) to attach a jewel on the collet of a ring


combishort

Pseudo-anglicism, blend of combinaison + short.


crépide

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, footwear) crepida (sandal)

Ancient Greece; footwear; Ancient Greece; footwear


braie

Ultimately from Latin brāca (“breeches”), itself from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, from Proto-Germanic *brāks, *brōks (“breeches, pants”).

der

trousers, namely a baggy type of trouser or breeches worn by many ancient peoples and tribes, most notably the Gauls; also worn later by crusaders and Templar knights


eau micellaire

fr-noun

eau micellaire f (plural eaux micellaires)


moule-bite

From mouler (“to mould; to fit tightly”) + bite (“cock, dick”).


top model

fr-noun

top model m or f by sense (plural top models)

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from top + model.


lentille de contact

fr-noun

lentille de contact f (plural lentilles de contact)

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couronne de lauriers

couronne de lauriers f (plural couronnes de lauriers)


endimanchement

endimanchement m (plural endimanchements)

From endimancher (“to dress up in one's Sunday best”) + -ment.

af

the act of dressing up in one's Sunday best


vitchoura

→ English: witzchoura


lunettes de vue

prescription glasses
prescription glasses


espade

(France, informal) Short for espadrille.


maillot de corps

fr-noun

maillot de corps m (plural maillots de corps)


pigache

→ English: pigache

Latin: pigacia, pigatia

C’est un pigache, mossieu le Comte: la pince de droite est plus longue que l’autre, et recourbée!

1978, Henri Vincenot, La Billebaude, page 47:

(hunting) hoofprint of a wild boar longer on one side than the other


YSL

(fashion) Initialism of Yves Saint-Laurent.

Yves Saint-Laurent a French fashion designer

Yves Saint Laurent, a French fashion house.


chapeau claque

chapeau claque m (plural chapeaux claque)


robe chinoise

robe chinoise f (plural robes chinoises)


poche-revolver

poche-revolver f (plural poches-revolver)


robe à la française

robe à la française f (plural robes à la française)

From robe (“dress, gown”) + à la française (“French-style”).

(fashion) sack-back/sack-back gown, sacque, Watteau gown


à la française

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From à la (“in the manner of; the style of”) française (“French”).

service à la française
service à la française

(cooking) service à la française, buffet (in which each guest compiles their own menu from a selection of dishes)


ennylonné

fr-adj

ennylonné (feminine ennylonnée, masculine plural ennylonnés, feminine plural ennylonnées)

ennylonnée (feminine)
ennylonnés (masculine plural)
ennylonnées (feminine plural)


binocles-ciseaux

fr-noun

binocles-ciseaux m (plural binocles-ciseaux)


spartille

(dated) Synonym of espadrille (“espadrille”)


bonnet de bain

bonnet de bain m (plural bonnets de bain)


calasiris

From Ancient Greek καλάσιρις (kalásiris), likely from an unclear Egyptian source.


bonnet de douche

bonnet de douche m (plural bonnets de douche)