nuque

From Middle French nuque.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /njuːk/

nuque (plural nuques)

1. The nape of the neck.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 158:

     He had buried his mouth in Ada's nuque, when she stiffened and raised a warning finger.

From Middle French nuque, nuche, borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع‎ (nuḵāʿ).

• IPA^(key): /nyk/

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nuque f (plural nuques)

1. nape, back of the neck

• nucal

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

• qu'une