单词 | mouchette |
释义 | mouchette in American English (muːˈʃet) noun Architecture a daggerlike form, esp. in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other Word origin [1925–30; ‹ F: orig., the fillet below an ovolo, projecting part of a cornice; hence,with the common sense “what protrudes,” prob. deriv. of moucher to cut or knock off (something protruding) ( see -ette), appar. extended sense of moucher to wipe (a person's) nose ‹ VL *muccāre, deriv. of L muccus, mūcus mucus] |
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