Noun: carquois
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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GOLAUD : C’est sans le vouloir ; voyons, ne pleure plus, je te donnerai quelque chose demain…
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YNIOLD : Quoi, petit-père ?
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GOLAUD : Un carquois et des flèches ; mais dis-moi ce que tu sais au sujet de la porte. (GOLAUD : It's without wanting it; let's see, don't cry any more, I'll give you something tomorrow…
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YNIOLD : What, grandfather?
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GOLAUD : A quiver and arrows; but tell me what you know about the door) [1892, Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande:]
Nouns inflected like carquois
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French carcois, carquais, from earlier tarchais, tarquait, from Byzantine Greek ταρκάσιον (tarkásion), from Arabic تِرْكَاش (tirkāš), from Persian تیرکش (tirkaš), ترکش (tarkaš, tarkeš, from تیر (tir, “arrow”) + کش (kaš, “container”)).
Verbs referencing "carquois"
Catalan Nouns
carcaix.
Translations