sarcelle

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English

Etymology

French, from Latin querquedula.

Noun

sarcelle (plural sarcelles)

  1. The oldsquaw, a kind of duck.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sarcelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saʁ.sɛl/
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Noun

sarcelle f (plural sarcelles)

  1. teal (ducklike bird)
    • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:
      On va aller en boîte trouver de la meuf, choper de la sarcelle à talon.
      We're going to a club to find some birds, get ourselves a bit of skirt.
      (literally, “We're going to go to a club to find some women, get some teal with heels.”)

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