floues

Floues is a term that appears in French grammar as the feminine plural form associated with the adjective flou, meaning blurry or hazy. In practice, floues is used to describe multiple feminine-noun phrases that lack sharpness, such as images or zones in a photograph.

In photography and visual arts writing, floues often appears in captions or analyses to indicate areas of intentional or unintentional blur. For example, the phrase les images floues translates to “the blurry images.” The masculine singular form flou is used for masculine nouns (un flou), while the feminine singular form floue accompanies feminine singular nouns. Floues, therefore, marks feminine plurality in agreement with the noun it modifies.

Etymology and usage notes: flou derives from the French word for blur or bluriness. The feminine form floue and the plural floues reflect standard French gender and number agreement for adjectives. While floues is common in French-language contexts, it is not used as a distinct English term; in English, one would typically say “blurry” or “blurred” to convey the same idea.

See also: flou, floue, blur, softness, soft focus, bokeh.