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• fléchette

語源

From French fléchette (“small arrow”), diminutive of flèche (“arrow”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /fleɪˈʃɛt/

名詞

flechette (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 flechettes)

1. A small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.
2. (dated, uncountable) The game of lawn darts.
   • 1907, Country-side: A Wildlife Magazine, v. 5 (1907), p. 26. British Empire Naturalist's Association.

     The Game of Flechette can be confidently recommended to amuse the seniors at a garden party