bouclier
French
    

Face interne du bouclier.
Etymology
    
Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /bu.kli.je/
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Noun
    
bouclier m (plural boucliers)
- shield (anything which protects or defends)
- levée de boucliers- outcry, protest
- (literally, “raising of shields”)
 
 -  1820, Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of original by Walter Scott:- Le même portait, en outre, le petit bouclier triangulaire, assez large à son sommet pour protéger la poitrine, et, à partir de là, s’amincissant en pointe.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 
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Further reading
    
- “bouclier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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