pointeur, n.m., pointer, marker, checker; (artil.) artillery-man (who points the gun).
*pointillage, n.m., (engr.) dotting, stippling.
*pointillé, n.m., (engr.) dotting, stippling.
*pointille, n.f., trifle, trifling point; bickering, cavil (about a trifling subject).
*pointiller, v.n., to dot, to stipple; to cavil, to carp at.
pointiller, v.a., to nettle, to tease.
*pointillerie, n.f., bickering, caviling, hair-splitting.
*pointilleu-x, -se, adj., caviling, particular, punctilious, captious. Un critique —; a carping critic.
pointu, -e, adj., pointed, sharp, sharp-pointed, peaked. Chapeau —; sugar-loaf hat.