sueur

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French suor, suur, from Latin sūdor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.

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  • IPA(key): /sɥœʁ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɥœʁ

Noun[edit]

sueur f (plural sueurs)

  1. sweat, perspiration
    Synonym: transpiration
    • 1972, Henri Vincenot, Le Pape des escargots [The Pope of the Snails], page 290:
      Être poète, c’est trouver parfumée la sueur de la femme qu’on aime.
      To be a poet is to consider as perfumed the sweat of the woman he loves.

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