brouillard

See also: Brouillard

French

Etymology

brouiller +‎ -ard, restructuring of an older brouillas, derived from the same verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁu.jaʁ/

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Noun

brouillard m (plural brouillards)

1. fog, mist
   • 2010, Michel Castaigna, La Dictée miraculeuse‎, page 37:

     Deux heures du matin, se disait-il, moins dix degrés, un brouillard à couper au couteau, un quartier sans intérêt, un mot de passe débile, quelques sous-officiers et sentinelles sans la moindre motivation et cinq cents troufions qui roupillent en attendant le jus tiède du matin [...]

     Two o'clock in the morning, he thought, minus ten degrees, a pea-souper of a fog, nothing interesting in the area, a stupid password, a few NCOs and sentries who had not a shred of motivation, and five-hundred squaddies dozing off as they waited for their warm juice in the morning […]

2. (finance) daybook

Further reading

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