Noun: brassière
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | brassière |
| Plural f | brassières |
Sample Sentences
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Il la voyait déjà revenant de l'école à la tombée du jour, toute rieuse, avec sa brassière tachée d'encre, et portant au bras son panier; puis il faudrait la mettre en pension, cela coûterait beaucoup; comment faire? (He already saw her coming from school as the day drew in, laughing, with ink-stains on her jacket, and carrying her basket on her arm.) [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:]
Nouns inflected like brassière
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French braciere (originally a lining inside armor to protect the arm, but later a garment), from Old French brace (“arm”). Equivalent to bras + -ière.
Verbs referencing "brassière"
English Nouns
brassiere, English Nouns
bra, Spanish Nouns
brasier, Romanian Nouns
brasieră.
Translations