Noun: oreiller
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | oreiller |
| Plural m | oreillers |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: coussin
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taie d'oreiller (pillowcase)
Nouns inflected like oreiller
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French orillier. By surface analysis, oreille + -ier. Cf. also Medieval Latin auriculāre, substantivized form of Latin auriculāris. Doublet of auriculaire. See: Latin Nouns '
auriculāris'.
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