plancher
/ˈplɑːnˈ(t)ʃə/ /ˈplanˈ(t)ʃə/noun
1A floor of planks or boards (now English regional ( East Anglian )). Formerly also: †a platform of planks ( obsolete ).
2A wooden plank, a board; (also, collectively) planking, boarding. Now English regional ( East Anglian ).
3In France: the minimum amount of currency in Treasury bills which banks are obliged to hold.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Exchequer Accounts. From Anglo-Norman plancher, planchier, plauncher, plauncheour floor, and Old French, Middle French plancher, planchier planking, flooring, floor of a house, ceiling, roof, the floor of a cavity in the body from planche + -er, -ier. Compare post-classical Latin planchera plank, planking, flooring.
- goodish-looking
- goodishness
- goodish-sized
- good King Harry
- Good King Henry
- good lady
- good-length
- good liber
- good life
- goodlike
- goodliness
- good liver
- good-living
- good-looker
- good-looking
- good-lookingness
- good looks
- goodlordship
- good luck to ——
- goodly
- goodly-sized
- goodman
- Goodman, Benny
- good manners
- good-meaning