manchette

English

Etymology

From French manchette.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒ̃ˈʃɛt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑnˈʃɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: man‧chette

Noun

manchette (plural manchettes)

1. (chiefly historical) An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
2. (biology) A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
3. (fencing) A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
4. (cooking) A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
5. (furniture) An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
6. (printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
7. (cycling) A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.

Translations

fencing glove

• Finnish: miekkailukäsine

medicine: array of microtubules

cusine: frill of paper

• Finnish: mansetti (fi)

upholstered arm

• Finnish: pehmustettu käsinoja

French

Etymology

From manche +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ʃɛt/

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Noun

manchette f (plural manchettes)

1. cuff
2. oversleeve, manchette
3. (journalism) headline
4. marginal note; note in the margin

Derived terms

• chevalier de la manchette

Descendants

• → English: manchette
• → Czech: manžeta
• → Dutch: manchet
  • Afrikaans: mansjet
  • → Indonesian: manset
• → German: Manschette
• → Haitian Creole: manchèt
• → Hebrew: מנג׳ט
• → Hungarian: mandzsetta
• → Norwegian Bokmål: mansjett
• → Portuguese: manchete
• → Romanian: manșetă
• → Russian: манже́та (manžéta)
  • → Uyghur: مانجىت (manjit)
  • → Uzbek: manjeta
• → Swedish: manschett
• → Turkish: manşet

Further reading

• “manchette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.