troupe
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Etymology edit
Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
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troupe (plural troupes)
- A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
- 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
- Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
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Verb edit
troupe (third-person singular simple present troupes, present participle trouping, simple past and past participle trouped)
- (intransitive) To tour with a troupe.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from troupeau.
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Noun edit
troupe f (plural troupes)
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- (non-military): bande
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Descendants edit
- → English: troop; troupe
- → Middle Dutch: trop
- → German: Truppe
- → Polish: trupa
- → Romanian: trupă
- → Spanish: tropa
- → Swedish: trupp
Further reading edit
- “troupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.
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troupe f (invariable)
References edit
- ^ troupe in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
troupe f (plural troupes)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “troupe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014