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gâche

/ɡaʃ/

noun, feminine/ɡaʃ/plural: gâches

oar; trowel

From Middle French gache (“a mason's tool for mixing, spatula, trowel”), from Old French gaiche (“oar, rowing”), derivative of gaschier (“to wash, soak”), from Old Frankish *waskan, *wascōn (“to wash, bathe”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną (“to wash”). More at gâcher, wash.

noun, feminineplural: gâches

keeper, strike

From Middle French gache, from Old French gaiche, gasche (“spike”), from Old Frankish *gaspia (“buckle, loop”) for *gapsia, *gaupsia, probably allied to Proto-Germanic *gaupaz (“crooked, bent apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *gheub-, *gheubh- (“to bend, bend over, move”). Cognate with Dutch gesp, gespe (“buckle, clasp, loop, hook”), Low German gaspe, gespe, göspe (“loop, hook”), Old English gēap (“bent, crooked, curved, open, wide, extensive”). More at gap, gape, gaff.

noun, feminineplural: gâches

A type of local brioche flavoured with orange.; A type of flat, rounded local bread