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À gauche , premier plan , porte
🚪

donnant sur
🔛

les appartements .

On the left, foreground, door overlooking the apartments.

La porte
🚪

de gauche est murée .

The left door is walled.

Pour la composition à gauche , il
👨

n'existe pas de théorème général .

For the composition on the left, there is no general theorem.

Les Allemands avaient réussi à franchir la Meuse et en occupaient la rive gauche .

The Germans had managed to cross the Meuse and occupied the left bank.

En contrebas , sur
🔛

sa gauche s'écoule l'Arve.

Below, on its left flows the Arve.

Sur
🔛

la gauche , trois
3

cordelettes descendent verticalement sur
🔛

l'oreille.

On the left, three cords descend vertically on the ear.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡoʃ/

Cognate with English

Cognate with Walloon

In summary

From gauchir (“to bend, dodge, warp”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“to tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“to deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original Latin-derived word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.