hausse

See also: Hausse and haussé

English

Etymology

French

Noun

hausse (plural hausses)

  1. (military, historical) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hausse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hausse (“rise”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

hausse f (plural hausses, diminutive hausseje n)

  1. (economics) economic bubble
  2. hype

French

Etymology

From hausser.

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /os/

Noun

hausse f (plural hausses)

  1. rise, increase
    Une hausse du nombre d'étrangers. A rise in the number of foreigners.
  2. (music, lutherie, bowmaking) frog (of a bow)

Verb

hausse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hausser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of hausser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of hausser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of hausser
  5. second-person singular imperative of hausser

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Anagrams

Swedish

Adjective

hausse c

  1. bull (of a market in which prices are rising)

Declension

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