tourbe
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See also: tourbé
Etymology
From Middle French tourbe, from Old French tourbe, from Frankish *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dorbʰós (“tuft, lawn”). Cognate with Old High German zurba (“turf”), English turf.
Pronunciation
Noun
tourbe f (plural tourbes)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “tourbe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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