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noun, masculine

bercail

/bɛʁ.kaj/

noun, masculine/bɛʁ.kaj/plural: bercails

fold (enclosure for animals); house, home

Tous les invités sont rentrés au bercail.All the guests have gone home.

Inherited from Old French bercal, from Vulgar Latin *berbicale, from *berbīx, from Latin vervex (“wether; castrated ram”).