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  • noun Plural form of fourchette.

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Examples

  • After cutting the large piece for the front and back of the glove, he cut out from the scraps remaining the "fourchettes," or _forks_; that is, the narrow strips that make the sides of the fingers.

    Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892

  • La rue reprenait son calme et devenait même presque déserte tandis que le ballet des fourchettes commençait.

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • La rue reprenait son calme et devenait même presque déserte tandis que le ballet des fourchettes commençait.

    Tante Marie-Francoise 2009

  • The table is nicked, scratched, and sullied from enough errant knives and fourchettes* that the surface looks, on second glance, like a wall of faded hieroglyphics.

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • The table is nicked, scratched, and sullied from enough errant knives and fourchettes that the surface looks, on second glance, like a wall of faded hieroglyphics.

    regle - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The table is nicked, scratched, and sullied from enough errant knives and fourchettes that the surface looks, on second glance, like a wall of faded hieroglyphics.

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • La rue reprenait son calme et devenait même presque déserte tandis que le ballet des fourchettes commençait.

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

  • La rue reprenait son calme et devenait même presque déserte tandis que le ballet des fourchettes commençait.

    Tante Marie-Francoise 2009

  • The table is nicked, scratched, and sullied from enough errant knives and fourchettes that the surface looks, on second glance, like a wall of faded hieroglyphics.

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • The table is nicked, scratched, and sullied from enough errant knives and fourchettes that the surface looks, on second glance, like a wall of faded hieroglyphics.

    regle - French Word-A-Day 2008

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