Poule vs Coq - What's the difference?
poule | coq |
A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:
*:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’
A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
* 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
* 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
* 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
As a noun poule
is a girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut or poule can be (in various senses).As a proper noun coq is
coquihalla.poule
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) poule.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
coq
English
Noun
(en noun)- with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
- A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq' feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. ' Coqs , the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.