biscornu

Borrowed from French biscornu.

biscornu (plural biscornus)

1. A kind of ornamental pincushion, usually made out of Aida cloth or linen, and decorated with embroidery.

• Rubicons, bursicon, obscurin, rubicons

From bis- +‎ cornu.

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biscornu (feminine biscornue, masculine plural biscornus, feminine plural biscornues)

1. bizarre (weird-looking)
2. crooked

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