Meanings
nounbouclé (countable and uncountable, plural bouclés)
plural bouclés
- countableuncountableA fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
Argent’s Metropolitan line was a sound investment, with its chemically treated bouclé cushions and Airform core.
2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 181 more example
He, too, showed up in style ahead of the game, wearing a custom bedazzled Amri combination of a bouclé shirt and matching shimmering trousers.
2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
- Frenchbouclé
- Englishbouclé
From French bouclé, from boucler (“to buckle”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech buklé, buklé
- bukléfabric
- bukléyarn
Finnish bukleekangas, silmukkalanka
- bukleekangasfabric
- silmukkalankayarn
- bukleelankayarn
German Bouclé
- Boucléfabric
Spanish bucle
- buclefabric
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with bouclé
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
bouclé. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boucl%C3%A9
MLA
“bouclé.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boucl%C3%A9. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bouclé,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boucl%C3%A9.
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