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noun, masculine

fourneau

/fuʁ.no/

noun, masculine/fuʁ.no/plural: fourneaux

stove (cooker); stove (heater); chamber (of a tobacco pipe); beggar, hobo

Inherited from Middle French fourneau, from Old French fornel, a diminutive of Old French forn (“oven”) (Modern French four) with suffix -eau, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *furnellus, from Latin furnus. Compare Italian fornello, Occitan fornèl, Catalan fornell, Spanish hornillo, Walloon fornea, etc.

fourneau — French Dictionary | Passage