bretelle

From French bretelle.

bretelle (plural bretelles)

1. (dated, chiefly in the plural) braces; suspenders (to hold up trousers)

• bretelled

• bell tree

From Old High German brittil.

• IPA^(key): /bʁə.tɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

bretelle f (plural bretelles)

1. strap
2. sling
3. braces (UK), suspenders (US)
4. (road transport) slip road; access road; ramp
   • 2025 September 1, Thomas Ancona-Leger, “Rosé, saucisses et patriotisme : Éric Zemmour célèbre sa rentrée”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 7:

     Coincé entre un Mac Do et une bretelle de l'autoroute A7, il est aujourd'hui point de départ de la Reconquête.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• remonter les bretelles

• → English: bretelle
• → Italian: bretella
• → Russian: бретель (bretelʹ)
  • → Georgian: ბრეტელი (breṭeli)

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

• IPA^(key): /breˈtɛl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛlle
• Hyphenation: bre‧tèl‧le

bretelle f

1. plural of bretella