gauche
Sentences
À gauche , premier plan , porte 🚪 donnant sur 🔛 les appartements .
🚪
🔛
On the left, foreground, door overlooking the apartments.
Sur 🔛 la gauche , trois 3 cordelettes descendent verticalement sur 🔛 l'oreille.
🔛
3
🔛
On the left, three cords descend vertically on the ear.
Meaning
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- left
- awkward, gawky
- clumsy
Concepts
left-handed person
left side
left hand
left hand side
unrefinedness
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡoʃ/
Etymology
In summary
From gauchir (“warp, distort”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.
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