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fourragère

/fʊɹəʒɛɹ/

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From French, feminine of fourrager (“connected with or yielding forage”), from fourrage (“forage”), from Old French forage.

noun fourragères

A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder. When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.

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@misc{fourrage_re_2026,
  title = {fourragère},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fourrag%C3%A8re},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}