putois

From French putois.

putois (plural putois)

1. A brush of polecat's hair for painting ceramics.

• pistou

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putois

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From Old French put + -ois.

• IPA^(key): /py.twa/

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putois m (plural putois)

1. polecat (especially, the European polecat, Mustela putorius)

• crier comme un putois

• “putois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.