foulard
French, noun/fu.laʁ/
foulard is spelled F-O-U-L-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written French, the 13,986th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Foulard is a French masculine noun meaning “headscarf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des…”.
What does foulard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheadscarf
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étoffe de soie, de soie et coton ou de fibres artificielles, très légère et dont on fait des mouchoirs, des cravates, des fichus, des robes, etc. 2. Pièce d’étoffe servant de mouchoir, de cache-col, d’écharpe ou de fichu. 3. Foulard islamique, hidjab, porté sur la tête et couvrant souvent la totalité des cheveux. 4. Machine servant à encoller des étoffes avec de l’apprêt ou d’autres substances.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of foulard
- foulards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foulard?
- /fu.laʁ/
- \fu.laʁ\
- [fu.lɑːʀ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to foulard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is foulard in French?
foulard appears 3.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).