fourchette

American  

[foor-shet] / fʊərˈʃɛt /

noun

1. Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.

2. Ornithology. furcula; wishbone.

3. Zoology. the frog of an animal's foot.

4. a strip of leather or fabric joining the front and back sections of a glove finger.

5. Chiefly Bridge. a tenace.

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fourchette British  

/ fʊəˈʃɛt /

noun

1. anatomy the bandlike fold of skin, about one inch from the anus, forming the posterior margin of the vulva

2. a less common name for furcula frog 3

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Etymology

Origin of fourchette

1745–55; < French, diminutive of fourche; fork, -ette

Example Sentences

The general has always been a bonne fourchette, but now, in retirement, he eats with gusto, if not abandon, and his weight is a source of anxiety to old friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Young heads laid together to plot mischief, I wager!" remarked the nobleman, jocosely; for he was in a capital humor, having just partaken of an epicurean dejeuner à la fourchette at the celebrated "Madrid's."

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

The game to commence with the "luncheon interval," to be employed in discussing a d�jeuner � la fourchette.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various

The remainder of the day should be given up to baths, to drinking waters, d�jeuner � la fourchette, and rest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various

A d�je�ner � la fourchette was laid out under tents, where, at twenty long tables covered in the European manner, the most distinguished personages took their seats.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von