Translation
curl of hair, ringlet
Word origin
From French boucle, a curl or a loop, from Latin buccula, the little cheek-strap of a helmet and a diminutive of bucca, cheek. English buckle is the same Latin word arriving by a different route.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- buccula
- English cognates
- buckle, boucle
Examples
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Her hair fell in soft curls onto her shoulders.
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The girl played with one curl while she read.
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He has black curls like his mother.
A is one curl or ringlet, not a whole head of hair. The -l- belongs to the root, -; there is no affix to peel off here and no verb buki underneath.
Hair vocabulary clusters around it. is a hair, o the head of it, is to comb and i is to wave. And a wig, , is where the bukloj happen to be somebody else's.
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