buée

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French buee (“laundry, wash”), from Vulgar Latin *būcāta (“laundry”, literally “soaked”), from Vulgar Latin *bucāre (“to soak, wash”), from Frankish *būkōn (“to soak, wash”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɥe/
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Noun

buée f (plural buées)

(dialectal, otherwise dated) laundry
condensation, steam, mist

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Further reading

“buée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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