fornaise
Old French
Alternative forms
- fornais m
Etymology
From the masculine form fornais (later becoming feminine in Old French), from Latin fornāx, fornācem.
Noun
fornaise oblique singular, f (oblique plural fornaises, nominative singular fornaise, nominative plural fornaises)
- furnace
- 13th century, Adam de Ross, La vision de Saint Paul, page 1, column 2, line 29:
- puis revit une fornaise
- then he saw again a furnace
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