truchement
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French truchement, from Old French drugement, borrowed from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān) during the crusades.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
truchement m (plural truchements)
- (literary) interpreter, translator
- Synonym: interprète
- (literary) spokesperson
- Synonym: porte-parole
- (literary) intermediary
- 1831, Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Part 1:
- La Forme est, dans ses figures, ce qu’elle est chez nous, un truchement pour se communiquer des idées, des sensations, une vaste poésie.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “truchement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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