How do you pronounce goutte?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɡuːt/.

Where does goutte come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

goutte

/ɡuːt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: goutte
IPA: /ɡuːt/

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Meaning

noun

A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.

Example Sentences

"Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules."

Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: goute, goutte, gutta

Inflected Forms

gouttes (plural)

Phrases

Henry Gough James Parker page 291:Azure on a lion rampant argent gouttes purpure Essex. The more frequent form is gutté or gutty gouté. They may be of various tinctures and in English […]

Frequently Paired Words

1894 Henry Gough James Parker page 291:Azure on a lion rampant argent gouttes purpure Essex. The more frequent form is gutté or gutty goutty

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