fleuret

• fleurette

From French fleurette, diminutive of fleur (“flower”). Doublet of floret and floweret.

fleuret (plural fleurets)

1. An ornament resembling a small flower.
2. A fencing foil.

• treeful

• IPA^(key): /flœ.ʁɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

fleur +‎ -et

fleuret m (plural fleurets)

1. (fencing) foil (weapon)
   • 1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac:

     Ils font des armes avec des fleurets qu'ils ont apportés.

     They fence with the foils they have brought.

• fleurettiste

• → Czech: fleret
• → Danish: fleuret
• → Korean: 플뢰레 (peulloere)
• → Turkish: flöre

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

fleuret m (plural fleurets)

1. filoselle
2. a drill or borer to penetrate the base of some construction

• “fleuret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.