foulard
/fuːˈlɑɹd/noun
foulard is a noun meaning “A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-L-A-R-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foulard is foulards.
What does foulard mean?
noun
- 1
A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
- 2
A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce foulard?
- UK /fuːˈlɑːd/
- US /fuːˈlɑɹd/
Foulard has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-foulard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of foulard
- foulards plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foulard?
Foulard appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foulard come from?
Borrowed from French foulard.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).