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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•mou•flet (kam′ə flā′, kam′ə flā′),USA pronunciation n. - Militaryan underground explosion of a bomb or mine that does not break the surface, but leaves an enclosed cavity of gas and smoke.
- Militarythe pocket formed by such an explosion.
- Militarythe bomb or mine so exploded and causing such a pocket.
- Latin calidus) + moufflet presumably "puff, breath''; compare Walloon dialect, dialectal moufler to puff up the cheeks; 1st syllable probably conformed to the expressive formative ca- (see cabbage1)
- French: literally, smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke, Middle French chault moufflet, equivalent. to chault hot (
- 1830–40
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