meute
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meute (plural meutes)
- A cage for hawks; a mew.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- Many were held by lay abbots , who , by degrees , expelled the monks ; the cloisters became the camps of their retainers , the stables of their coursers , the kennels of their hounds , the meutes of their hawks.
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- “meute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French meute, from muete, from Latin *movita, feminine substantivization of Latin *movitus, 'vulgar' perfect passive participle for moveō (“move”).
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meute f (plural meutes)
- (hunting) pack (of hounds)
- mob (of people)
- C'est la meute des honnêtes gens qui fait la chasse à l'enfant (Jacques Prévert)
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- “meute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.