Etymology

fourragère

Today it means: A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder. Full definition →

Old French forage
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  1. Old French · derived fromforage
  2. English todayfourragère

From French, feminine of fourrager (“connected with or yielding forage”), from fourrage (“forage”), from Old French forage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.