Etymology

soutache

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Today it means: A narrow braid often decorated with a herringbone pattern Full definition →

French soutache ← Hungarian sujtás
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The story

  1. Hungarian · derived fromsujtás“ribbon, braid”
  2. French · borrowed fromsoutache
  3. English todaysoutache

Borrowed from French soutache, from Hungarian sujtás (“ribbon, braid”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.