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Fougères

/fu.ʒɛʁ/

proper noun/fu.ʒɛʁ/

Fougères (a town in Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, France)

Borrowed from Gallo Foujerr, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *filicāria (“thicket of ferns”) (cognate with French fougère). For the meaning, compare Indonesian Sepaku (“a district in East Kalimantan”).