broussaille
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁu.saj/
Noun
broussaille f (plural broussailles)
- undergrowth, scrub; bushes
- 1862, Victor Hugo, “I. Le soir d’un jour de marche”, in Les Misérables, 1re partie. Fantine; Livre deuxième. La chute, Belgium: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.:
- L’œil luisait sous les sourcils comme un feu sous une broussaille.
- The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire beneath brushwood.
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Further reading
- “broussaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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