fourché

or four·chée

[foo r-shey]

adjective Heraldry.

forked or divided into two at the extremity or in extremities: a lion's tail fourché; a cross fourché.

Origin of fourché

1350–1400; Middle English < French; see fork, -ee

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Since your son-in-law goes to Fourche to-morrow, perhaps he can take her.
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It's one Léonard, widow of one Guérin, who lives at Fourche.
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Not to Fourche, but to Ormeaux, where she is going to stay the rest of the year.
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As your son-in-law is going to Fourche to-morrow, he can just as well take her.
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All that Germain could learn was that the girl and the child had gone in the direction of Fourche.
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