soufflet — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bellows noun A hand-operated device that pumps a blast of air when squeezed, used to fan a fire or power an instrument like an accordion.
Senses
soufflet is used for these senses in English:
- bellows A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
- slap in the face Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, in, the, face. (This sense is a translation hub.)
bellows — full definition
- noun A hand-operated device that pumps a blast of air when squeezed, used to fan a fire or power an instrument like an accordion.
- noun Informally, the lungs.