brancard

Borrowed from French brancard.

brancard (plural brancards)

1. (obsolete) A litter drawn by a horse, on which a person may be carried.
   • 1814, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 479:

     Mr d'Arblay was not only renversé, the brancard striking him upon his breast, but flung to some distance by the force of the blow.

Borrowed from French brancard.

• IPA^(key): /brɑŋˈkaːr/

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• Hyphenation: bran‧card

brancard m (plural brancards, diminutive brancardje n)

1. gurney, stretcher

   Synonyms: baar, draagbaar

• → Indonesian: brankar
• → Papiamentu: brankar

From branc, masculine form of branche (“branch”), with noun suffix -ard.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.kaʁ/

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brancard m (plural brancards)

1. shaft (pole to attach a wagon, cart, etc. to an animal)
2. (dated) handle of a litter
3. (metonymic) stretcher

   Synonym: civière

   • 2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles, Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 10:

     Le barbu s'appelle Augustin, l'autre, c'est Sauvageon. Ils sont tous les deux brancos au 98^e R.I. Le type qu'ils trimballent sur le brancard, c'est Grumeau.

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• brancardage (noun)
• brancarder (verb)
• brancardier (noun)
• ruer dans les brancards

• branche

• → Dutch: brancard
  • → Indonesian: brankar
  • → Papiamentu: brankar
• → English: brancard
• → Khmer: ប្រង់កា (prɑngkaa)
• → Persian: برانکارد (berânkârd)
• → Vietnamese: băng ca

• “brancard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• A. Brachet (1868) An etymological dictionary of the French language (in French)