Fleche meaning

flĕsh, flāsh
A slender spire, especially one on a church above the intersection of the nave and transept.
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A slender spire, esp. one over the intersection of the nave and the transept in some Gothic churches.
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(backgammon) Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
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(architecture) A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
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(military, fortification) An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
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(fencing) A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.
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Origin of fleche

  • French arrow, flèche from Old French arrow of Germanic origin pleu- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Wiktionary

Fleche Sentence Examples

  • From 1604 to 1612 he studied at the school of La Fleche, which Henry IV.

  • as it was borne to its resting-place at La Fleche.

  • A.) Fleche (French for "arrow"), the term generally used in French architecture for a spire, but more especially employed to designate the timber spire covered with lead, which was erected over the intersection of the roofs over nave and transepts; sometimes these were small and unimportant, but in cathedrals they were occasionally of large dimensions, as in the fleche of Notre-Dame, Paris, where it is nearly ioo ft.

  • On the other hand, he was successful on the whole in pursuing the policy of Geoffrey Martel in Maine: after destroying La Fleche, by the peace of Blanchelande (1081), he received the homage of Robert "Courteheuse" ("Curthose"), son of William the Conqueror, for Maine.

  • Later, he upheld Elias, lord of La Fleche, against William Rufus, king of England, and on the recognition of Elias as count of Maine in 1100, obtained for Fulk the Young, his son by Bertrade de Montfort, the hand of Eremburge, Elias's daughter and sole heiress.

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