Etymology

brise-bise

Today it means: A net curtain (or lace curtain) for the lower half of a window. Full definition →

French brise-bise
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  1. French · borrowed frombrise-bise
  2. English todaybrise-bise

Borrowed from French brise-bise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.