Etymology

croupiere

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Today it means: Synonym of crupper (“armor for a horse's buttocks”). Full definition →

French croupière
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  1. French · borrowed fromcroupière
  2. English todaycroupiere

Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.