faubert
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French
Etymology
From earlier fouber, fauber; further etymology unclear.
Pronunciation
Noun
faubert m (plural fauberts)
- a mop made from old rope (particularly hemp rope), used for cleaning the deck of a ship
- Synonym: vadrouille
- 1836, Le navigateur: revue maritime, volume 3, page 114:
- Les matelots anglais, occupés à laver le pont, n’ont pour armes que des balais et des fauberts; tandis qu’un partie des assaillans court à l’ouverture des écoutilles, l’autre attaque avec fureur les hommes qui se trouve sur le pont, et dont la résistance provoque la mort.
- The English sailors, occupied washing the deck, have no weapons but brooms and mops; while one group of the assailants runs to the hatch openings, the other attacks with fury the men they find on the deck, and whose resistance provokes death.
- 2011, François Flaven, Meschacebé, page 251:
- Les seaux près de chaque canon sont remplis d’eau; ils auront un triple emploi: mouiller les fauberts, nettoyer les pièces et lutter contre un début d’incendie.
- The buckets near each cannon are filled with water; their use will be threefold: to wet the mops, to clean the guns and to fight against a fire starting.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “faubert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.