Noun: poule
| Singular | poule |
| Plural | poules |
Sample Sentences
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It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal. [1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:]
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‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’ [2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:]
Nouns inflected like poule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla. See: French Nouns '
poule', Latin Nouns '
pullus'.