berceuse

Borrowed from French berceuse.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɛɹˈsuz/^[1]

berceuse (plural berceuses)

1. (music) A composition that resembles a lullaby, often in 6/8 time.
   • 1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     What was in my mind as I waited for sleep and the engines thundered their ineffectual berceuse was the chapter, a brief one, about the Jews.

Borrowed from French berceuse.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɛrˈsøː.zə/

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• Hyphenation: ber‧ceu‧se
• Rhymes: -øːzə

berceuse f (plural berceuses)

1. (relatively formal, also figurative) a lullaby, especially one composed by a composer

   Synonyms: slaaplied, wiegelied

2. (formal, dated) rocking chair

   Synonym: schommelstoel

From bercer +‎ -euse.

• IPA^(key): /bɛʁ.søz/

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berceuse f (plural berceuses)

1. cradler, someone who cradles or rocks a baby
2. ellipsis of chanson berceuse: a lullaby
3. ellipsis of chaise berceuse: a rocking chair

• berceur

• → Dutch: berceuse
• → English: berceuse

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

Unadapted borrowing from French berceuse.

berceuse f (plural berceuse)

1. berceuse