| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| flèche |
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| PRONUNCIATION: | fl sh, fl sh |
| NOUN: | A slender spire, especially one on a church above the intersection of the nave and transepts. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, arrow, flèche, from Old French, arrow, of Germanic origin. See pleu- in Appendix I.
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