boucle

From French boucler (“to buckle”).

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

boucle (countable and uncountable, plural boucles)

1. A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.
2. Yarn with multiple plies, one of which is looser than the others, producing loops and curls.

From Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.

• IPA^(key): /bukl/

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boucle f (plural boucles)

1. loop (line returning to its origin)
2. (jewellery) earring
3. buckle (of a belt, etc.)
4. curl (of hair)
5. ringlet
6. (graph theory) loop
7. (figure skating) loop jump
8. (aviation) loop the loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

• en boucle
• boucle d'oreille

• boucler
• bouclette

• Catalan: bucle
• Galician: bucle
• Portuguese: bucle
• Russian: бу́кля (búklja)
• Spanish: bucle

• “boucle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).