exutoire
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin exuō (“to draw out, take off, free”) (perfect passive participle exūtus) + -oire (suffix forming masculine nouns).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
exutoire m (plural exutoires)
- (also figurative) outlet (release of desires)
- 1997, “Elle donne son corps avant son nom”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
- J’ai dû trouver un exutoire pour passer mes nerfs / Et un skin a morflé des coups de Black et Decker
- I had to find someone [an outlet] to take it out on / And a skinhead bore the brunt of my Black and Decker
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “exutoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.