manchette
English
Noun
manchette (plural manchettes)
- (fencing) a special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand
- (medicine) a conical array of microtubules that completely covers the nucleus of a spermatid
- (cooking) a paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat
- (furniture) an upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
- (printing) a vertical heading within a newspaper article.
- (cycling) a sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
- An ornamental cuff.
Translations
fencing glove
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medicine: array of microtubules
upholstered arm
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.ʃɛt/
audio (file)
Noun
manchette f (plural manchettes)
- cuff
- oversleeve, manchette
- (journalism) headline
- marginal note; note in the margin
Descendants
- German: Manschette
- Norwegian: mansjett (Bokmål), mansjett (Nynorsk)
- Romanian: manșetă
- Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
Further reading
- “manchette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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