fougasse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fougasse. Doublet of focaccia.

Noun

fougasse (plural fougasses)

2. A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.
4. An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.

   Synonym: fougade

Translations

bread

• Japanese: フーガス (fūgasu)

old-fashioned type of land mine

• French: fougasse (fr) f
• Italian: fugas, fougasse
• Polish: fugas (pl)
• Russian: фуга́с (ru) (fugás)
• Spanish: fogata f

Further reading

• fougasse (bread) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ɡas/

Etymology 1

From earlier fougade, probably borrowed from Italian fogata (from fogare, from foga), with a change of suffix.

Noun

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (military) fougasse (land-mine)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French fougasse, foucasse, borrowed from Old Occitan fogatza, fogassa, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Doublet of the inherited fouace.

Noun

fougasse f (plural fougasses)

1. (cooking) fougasse (lattice-shaped bread associated with Provence)

Related terms

• fouace
• feu

Descendants

• → English: fougasse

Further reading

• “fougasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• fougasse on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr