Meaning & use
foudres
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“foudres” is a form of “foudre”.
Meaning
nounusually pluralrare
A large wooden vat used for storing and fermenting wine, especially in France.
Grammar: Almost always used in the plural form 'foudres' when referring to multiple vats or a set of them.
Patterns
- a foudre of wine
- aged in foudres
The winemaker aged the Pinot Noir in large foudres for two years.
Traditional foudres can hold thousands of liters of wine.
They cleaned the foudres before the harvest.
Word forms
| singular | foudre |
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Common combinations
- large foudres
- The cellar was filled with large foudres.
- oak foudres
- Oak foudres give the wine a subtle woody flavor.
- age in foudres
- Some wineries age their wines in foudres.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- foudre noun
- Singular form; a single large wooden vat.
Commonly confused: foudres or fodder?
foudres vs fodder
Fodder is food for farm animals; foudres are wine vats. They sound somewhat similar but are unrelated.
Practice
Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: The winemaker stored the young wine in large ____.
Choose one answer.
'Foudres' is the correct plural for large wine vats. 'Fodders' means animal feed, 'fouders' is a misspelling, and 'foudreses' is not a word.
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