appât
See also: appat
French
editEtymology
editFrom appâter.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editappât m (plural appâts or appas)
- (obsolete) lure
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- C’est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent ! / Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas ;
- It is the Devil who holds the wires that stir us! / To the repulsive objects we find lures;
- (archaic) (sexual) temptation
- (in the plural, literary) charms
- (fishing) bait
- (martial arts) feint
Further reading
edit- “appât”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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