Question 1

What is the plural of the French word "brosse"?

Accepted Answer

brosses

Question 2

What is the etymology of thr French word "brosse"?

Accepted Answer

from the Old French 'broce' ('thicket, small wood, brushwood') whose meaning has been preserved in the verb 'brosser', in hunting language: 'to run through dense woods'. Spanish has 'broza' ('tree debris'). It can also be related to the Occitan 'brusc' and 'heather'.

Question 3

What does the French word "brosse" mean?

Accepted Answer

A tool used to clean clothes, furniture, etc., typically made of an assembly of pig or boar bristles, sometimes of horse hair, thin heather stems or couch grass, etc.
A large paintbrush used by house painters.
A type of artist's brush with stiff, firm bristles (pig bristles) for use with heavy paints (oil, acrylic), as opposed to a brush with fine, soft hairs (marten, squirrel) for more liquid and aqueous media (watercolor, gouache).
Tufts of hair on the front legs of deer, antelopes and also on the tarsus of certain insects, especially bees.
A tuft of hair, bristles or hair.
A covering of bristles on the inner surface of the first segment of the hind tarsi used to collect pollen.
A tuft of hair on the hind legs of deer.
A hedge bordering a wood to protect it from the wind and animals; a thicket, uncultivated land.
Soûlerie.

Question 4

What is the translation of "brosse" into spanish?

Accepted Answer

brocha de afeitar

Question 5

What is the translation of "brosse" into russian?

Accepted Answer

щётка

Question 6

How to translate "brosse" into italian?

Accepted Answer

spazzola

Question 7

How do you translate "brosse" into german?

Accepted Answer

Bürste

Question 8

How do you say "brosse" in portuguese?

Accepted Answer

escova

Question 9

What is the translation of "brosse" into english?

Accepted Answer

eraser

brosse

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