fournaise
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French fornaise, from the masculine fornais, from Latin fornācem.
Pronunciation
Noun
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
- furnace
- Hypernym: four
- (colloquial, figurative) furnace (extremely hot area)
- Synonym: four
- (literary) blaze, conflagration
Related terms
Further reading
- “fournaise” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “fournaise” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “fournaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology
From Old French fornaise, from fornais, from Latin fornāx, fornācem.
Noun
fournaise f (plural fournaises)
Descendants
- French: fournaise
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