étourderie
English
editEtymology
editFrom French étourderie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editétourderie (plural étourderies)
- Thoughtlessness, carelessness; a thoughtless act.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 119:
- [S]ome sudden etourderie not at all in harmony with my feelings; some trait, in the character of her country, has suddenly dissolved the charm, and awakened me to a full sense of the folly I was guilty of.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- Henry is blameless, and in spite of a moment's étourderie thinks of nobody but you.
- 1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell:
- His love affairs appeared as the étourderies of a much younger man.
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editétourderie f (plural étourderies)
Further reading
edit- “étourderie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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