noun, feminine/e.pol/plural: épaules
shoulder
Related: avoir la tête sur les épaules, changer son fusil d'épaule, épauler, épaulette, hausser les épaules
Inherited from Middle French espaule, from Old French espalle, from Vulgar Latin *spatla, from Late Latin spathula (“flat, broad piece”), diminutive of Latin spatha (“straight sword”) (whence French épée (“sword”)). Doublet of spatule, which was a borrowing.