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French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin carex.
Pronunciation
Noun
careiche f (plural careiches)
- (botany, archaic) carex, sedge
- Synonyms: laîche, caret, rouche
1896, Charles Douniol, Le Correspondant, volume 182, page 973:Ils arrivaient avec des brins de joncs, des racines, des careiches sèches, sans parvenir à les utiliser.- They arrived with blades of rushes, roots, dry sedges, without succeeding in using them.
1909, Revue des deux mondes, volume 54, page 771:Brillant comme le ventre d’un poisson, tout en écailles blanches, il serpenterait entre les touffes de careiche et les flaques d’eau d’où monte le coassement mélancolique des rainettes.- Shining like the belly of a fish, all white scales, it snaked through the tufts of sedge and the puddles of water from which the melancholy croaks of tree frogs rise.
1947, A. M. Desrousseaux, Les Oiseaux, translation of The Birds by Aristophanes, page 46:Fais-la sortir les careiches, ton oiselle; fais-l’en sortir, au nom des dieux, que nous puissons, nous deux aussi, voir la rossignole à notre aise.- Bring out your little bird from the sedges; bring her out in the name of the gods, so that we two may also behold the nightingale at our leisure.