garcette

garcette (plural garcettes)

1. (historical) A French women's hairstyle from the 16th century where the hair was pulled back over the forehead.
2. (historical) A whip made of braided rope.

Inherited from Middle French garcette (“gasket”), from Old French garce (“young woman”), a feminization of garçon.

garcette f (plural garcettes)

1. a gasket

• “garcette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.