fourragère

/fʊɹəʒɛɹ/

noun

A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.

OriginOld French forage →
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Meanings

nounfourragère (plural fourragères)

plural fourragères

  1. A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.

    When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.

    1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up, A. & C. Boni, page 160

Origin

  1. Old Frenchforage
  2. Englishfourragère

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

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Chicago

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