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fourragère

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An ornamental braided cord usually looped around the left shoulder of a uniform, sometimes awarded to an entire military unit.

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  • noun A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from fourrage, forage, from Old French forrage; see forage.]

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French, feminine of fourrager ("connected with or yielding forage"), from fourrage ("forage"), from Old French forage

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  1. aiguillette

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  • ry commented on the word fourragère

    He spit on the Americans. The spit hit Roland Weary's shoulder, gave Weary a fourragière of snot and blutwurst and tobacco juice, and Schnapps.
    —Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

    March 25, 2014