fleche

• There's no mistaking Faucher: There was the Pere Noel beard, the bearlike build, the traditional garb complete with a ceinture fleche - a brightly-colored sash wrapped tightly around his waist. —  RutlandHerald.com
• Depuis le site de Cuil, Sur l'icône du moteur de recherche en haut à droite dans la barre Firefox, cliquez sur la petite fleche puis sélectionnez l'option "Ajouter Cuil" —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
• This is also a favourite tree, where it grows, to make tent-poles, canoe-timbers, and other implements required by the Indians; and these people use so much of it for their arrows, that it has received from the Canadian voyageurs the name of bois de fleche (arrow-wood Well, then, the frame of the snow-shoes being bent to its proper shape, two transverse bars are placed across near the middle, and several inches from each other. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• In Cordova's vocabulary, as given by Ternaux-Compans, "fleche" is given as the meaning of quii-lana_. —  Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
• Again in their diet and other such things they differ much: the Minime most renounce for ever the eating of fleche, their only food is fishes and roots; hence Erasmus calles them fischy men (homines piscosos). —  Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676

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