Question 1

What does the French word "colifichet" mean?

Accepted Answer

Small pieces of paper, cardboard, parchment representing various figures and glued on wood, velvet, etc.
Embroidery work made on paper which serves as a background.
Small sartorial adjustments that only serve as ornamentation.
Small, miserly ornaments, poorly placed or not in keeping with the places where they are put.
Colifichet - Small triangular panel that, in a parquet floor, is assembled on each of the four sides of the sheet, between the tongue-and-groove pieces and the frame.
A kind of dry and very light pastry, made without butter and without salt, which is given to birds kept in cages.
A machine used in the past by adjusters to reduce coins to equal weight.
Too frequent passages that present too great a variety of sounds, such as embellishments and trills, which startle the ear without pleasing the mind, without touching the heart, like simple, pure and tender singing.
An object of little value used as a good luck charm.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

colifichets

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

from the Latin colla (glue) and figo ("I fix, I attach"): "attached with glue".

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