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manchette
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒ̃ˈʃɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /mɑnˈʃɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: man‧chette
Noun
manchette (plural manchettes)
- (chiefly historical) An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
- (biology) A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
- (fencing) A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
- (cooking) A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
- (furniture) An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
- (printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
- (cycling) A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
Derived terms
Translations
fencing glove
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medicine: array of microtubules
upholstered arm
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
manchette f (plural manchettes)
- cuff
- oversleeve, manchette
- (journalism) headline
- marginal note; note in the margin
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: manchette
- → Czech: manžeta
- → Dutch: manchet
- Afrikaans: mansjet
- → Indonesian: manset
- → German: Manschette
- → Haitian Creole: manchèt
- → Hebrew: מנג׳ט
- → Hungarian: mandzsetta
- → Norwegian Bokmål: mansjett
- → Portuguese: manchete
- → Romanian: manșetă
- → Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
- → Uyghur: مانجىت (manjit)
- → Uzbek: manjeta
- → Swedish: manschett
- → Turkish: manşet
Further reading
- “manchette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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