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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French doublure.
Noun
doublure (plural doublures)
- An elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book.
- The reflexed margin of a trilobite carapace.
French
Etymology
From doubler + -ure.
Pronunciation
Noun
doublure f (plural doublures)
- lining
- (theater) understudy
- (film) body double, stand-in; stuntman
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