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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skina, from Germanic. Compare German Schienbein (“tibia”).
Pronunciation
Noun
échine f (plural échines)
- spinal column; backbone; spine of an animal
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 577:Regarde les omoplates se remuer sous la peau soyeuse du dos, et l’échine qui descend vers la luxuriance double et fraîche des fesses, et les grandes branches des vases et des nerfs qui passent du tronc aux rameaux par les aisselles, et comme la structure des bras correspond à celle des jambes.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Verb
échine
- inflection of échiner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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