bise
English
Noun
bise (countable and uncountable, plural bises)
- Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)
- A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Germanic.
Etymology 2
From biser.
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.
Further reading
- “bise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Spanish
Venetian
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