poussière
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French pousiere, derived from pous, from Vulgar Latin *pulvus, neuter form derived from Latin pulvis m.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
poussière f (plural poussières)
- dust
- des nuages de poussière cosmique ― cosmic dust clouds
- 2018, Zaz, Si c'était à refaire:
- Si c’était à refaire […] je suivrais mes traces dans la poussière.
- If I had to do it all over again […] I'd follow my footsteps in the dust.
- speck of dust
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:
- Ne reste-t-il que des poussières une fois que l’amour est absent ?
- Is dust all that's left once love is gone?
- (plural only) very little; next to nothing
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Descendants edit
- Haitian Creole: pousyè
Further reading edit
- “poussière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun edit
poussière f (plural poussières)