noun, masculine/bu.lɑ̃.ʒe/plural: boulangers
baker (who bakes bread; contrast pâtissier)
Related: boulangerie, robot boulanger
Inherited from Middle French boulanger, from Old French boulanger, bolengier (“baker”), from Picard Old French boulenc (“bun-maker, bread-maker”), of Germanic origin, from Low Frankish *bollā (“bun”) + -enc (“-ing”), from Frankish *-ing (“-ing”), from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz (“-ing”).