buée

From Middle French, from Old French buee (“laundry, wash”), from Vulgar Latin *bucata (“laundry”, literally “soaked”), from Vulgar Latin *bucāre (“to soak, wash”), from Frankish *būkōn (“to soak, wash”), from Proto-Germanic *būkōną (“to soak”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhAuǵ- (“a kind of leaf-bearing tree”). Cognate with Middle High German būchen, biuchen (“to wash out with lye”), Middle Dutch būken, buyken (“to wash in beech lye”), Middle English bouken (“to soak in a lye solution”). More at beech.

• IPA^(key): /bɥe/

buée f (plural buées)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) laundry
2. condensation, steam, mist

• buer
• parabuée

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