Etymology

parfleche

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Today it means: A form of stiff leather made from rawhide. Full definition →

Canadian French parflèche ← French par(er)
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The story

  1. French · derived fromflèche“arrow”
  2. French · derived frompar(er)“to parry”
  3. Canadian French · borrowed fromparflèche
  4. English todayparfleche

From Canadian French parflèche, equivalent to French par(er) (“to parry”) + French flèche (“arrow”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchflèche all →

flèche

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.