sapeur
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
sapeur (plural sapeurs)
- (Africa) A member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance.
- 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:
- For these sapeurs, the essential thing was to dress elegantly, with name-brand clothes made by famous designers if possible.
- 2020 July 27, Trey Kay, “Congolese dandies: Meet the stylish men and women of Brazzaville”, in The Guardian[1], London: The Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2020-10-01:
- Since the 1920s, the sapeurs of the Congo have been making sartorial statements on the streets of Brazzaville and Kinshasa.
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French sappeur. By surface analysis, saper + -eur.
Noun edit
sapeur m (plural sapeurs)
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Etymology 2 edit
From sape + -eur. In the context of La Sape, the word is also treated as an initialism of Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes ("Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People").
Noun edit
sapeur m (plural sapeurs, feminine sapeuse)
- (Africa) a member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance
Further reading edit
- “sapeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun edit
sapeur m (plural sapeurs)