brèche

From Middle French breche, bresche, from Old French breche, bresche (“a breach, an opening, crack”), from Old Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”). Cognate with Old High German brecha (“a break”). More at break.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

brèche f (plural brèches)

1. gap, hole
2. (military) breach

• battre en brèche

• “brèche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bécher