mentonnière
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.tɔ.njɛʁ/
- Rhymes: -ɛʁ
- Homophone: mentonnières
Noun
mentonnière f (plural mentonnières)
- (historical) beaver (lower part of a helmet)
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
- « Et je dis aussi que bien que ce soit un armet, ce n’est pas un armet entier. ¶ – Non certes, s’écria don Quichotte, car il lui manque une moitié, qui est la mentonnière. »
- "And I say that as much as it is a helmet, it is not an entire helmet" ¶ "Certainly not," exclaimed Don Quixote, "as it is missing a half, which is the beaver."
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- (music, lutherie) chinrest
Further reading
- “mentonnière” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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