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fourché

or four·chée

[ foor-shey ]

adjective

, Heraldry.
  1. forked or divided into two at the extremity or in extremities:

    a lion's tail fourché; a cross fourché.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of fourché1

1350–1400; Middle English < French; fork, -ee

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Example Sentences

This singular rock towers above the Belle Fourche River to a height of eight hundred feet.

Sentence pour ung pourceaulz execut par justice, admen en la cense de Clermont, et trangl en une fourche les gibez dAvin.

This was the Fourche; beyond those waters lay the terrible peril of Indian raiders.

To his judgment, Murphy would not be likely to ride during the night until after he had crossed the Fourche.

You wus a-keepin' yer eyes skinned across the Fourche, and naturally didn't expect no callers from them hills behind.

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