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FOURCHETTE

Definitions: FOURCHETTE

FOURCHETTE

Noun

1. The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.

2. An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.

3. The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

4. The wishbone or furculum of birds.

5. A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.

6. A table fork.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: FOURCHETTE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FOURCHETTE

Non-English Usage: "FOURCHETTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (fork), Ruanda (fork).

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Photo Album: FOURCHETTE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

This chancre is located on the posterior vaginal fourchette (where labia minora meet). The primary stage of syphilis is often marked by the appearance of a single sore called a chancre, which is usually firm, round, small, and painless. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: FOURCHETTE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Ukraine

Other popular Ukrainian cash-and-carry chains are Fozzy, Rainford, Le Fourchette, and Maxi. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FOURCHETTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fourchette

17

fourchette piercing

9

fourchette fourquet

5

la fourchette

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FOURCHETTE

Language Translations for "FOURCHETTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

מזל'ון. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蹄叉 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ていさ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ourchettefay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FOURCHETTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: fourchee.

-3 letters: couther, curette, fetcher, fouette, futhorc, retouch, thereof, thereto, toucher, trochee.

-4 letters: cheero, cohere, cotter, couter, cutter, echoer, etcher, euchre, fetter, fourth, hector, hefter, hereof, hereto, hetero, hotter, reecho, refect, refute, rochet, rotche, rouche, tercet, tether, tocher, tother, touche, touter, troche, tufter.

-5 letters: cheer, chert, chore, chott, chute, court, couth, croft, cruet, curet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FOURCHETTE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4F 55 52 43 48 45 54 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ---    ..-    .-.    -.-.    ....    .    -    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001111 01010101 01010010 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 0055 0052 0043 0048 0045 0054 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40495552374239545439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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