mouchoir

From French mouchoir.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /muʃˈwɑɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /muːʃˈwɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mou‧choir

mouchoir (plural mouchoirs)

1. (dated) A handkerchief.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Becky came down to him presently; whenever the dear girl expected his lordship, her toilette was prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gimcracks arranged, […] .

From moucher +‎ -oir.

• IPA^(key): /mu.ʃwaʁ/

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• Rhymes: -waʁ
• Homophone: mouchoirs

mouchoir m (plural mouchoirs)

1. handkerchief
   • 1967, “Ce soir je m'en vais”, performed by Jacqueline Taïeb:

     Je suis sur le quai / Le bateau va partir / J'agite mon mouchoir / Mais je n'arrive pas à sourire

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• à mouchoir que veux-tu
• mouchoir de poche
• mouchoir en papier

• → Chadian Arabic: مشوار (mušwār)
• → English: mouchoir
• → Ojibwe: moshwe
• → Vietnamese: mu-xoa, mùi soa, mùi xoa

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