Etymology

bouclé

Today it means: A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls. Full definition →

French bouclé
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The story

  1. French · borrowed frombouclé
  2. English todaybouclé

From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchbouclé all →

parbuckle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.