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fleuret

/flœ.ʁɛ/

noun, masculine/flœ.ʁɛ/plural: fleurets

foil (weapon)

Et même il admirait déjà sur sa cheminée deux fleurets en sautoir avec une tête de mort et la guitare au-dessus.He even already was admiring two crossed foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's-head on the guitar above them.

Related: fleurettiste

From fleur + -et, calque of Italian fioretto.

noun, masculine/flœ.ʁɛ/plural: fleurets

filoselle; a drill or borer to penetrate the base of some construction

Borrowed from Catalan floret or Italian fioretto, doublet of foret.