<span class="searchmatch">houppes</span> f plural of <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span>...
(aspirated h) IPA(key): /up/ <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span> f (plural <span class="searchmatch">houppes</span>) tuft tassel powder puff (heraldry) tassel houppette houppier “<span class="searchmatch">houppe</span>”, in Trésor de la langue française...
From <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span> + -ette. houppette f (plural houppettes) small tuft, tassel etc. an absorbent feminine contraceptive device “houppette”, in Trésor de la langue...
From <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span> + -ier. (aspirated h) IPA(key): /u.pje/ houppier m (plural houppiers) a person who makes or sells tassels (etc) (botany) the crown, branches...
houbelon (15th c.), from a confluence of two words: Middle French hoppe, <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span> (“hopped beer”, 14th c.), from Middle Dutch hoppe (“hops”), from Old Dutch...
Proto-West Germanic *hupp-, whence also East Flemish hoppe (“tussock”), French <span class="searchmatch">houppe</span> (“tuft”); further perhaps related with Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”)....