carambole
See also: carambolé
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Noun edit
carambole (plural caramboles)
Verb edit
carambole (third-person singular simple present caramboles, present participle caramboling, simple past and past participle caramboled)
- (archaic) To play a carom shot.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49:
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish carambola.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carambole f (plural caramboles)
- star fruit
- Synonym: pomme de Goa
- Les caramboles sont-elles mûres ?
- Are the star fruits ripe?
- (dated, billiards) red (ball)
- Il a raté son coup de peu ; il est passé à deux millimètres de la carambole.
- He just missed the shot; he missed the red ball by two millimeters.
- (by extension, dated) French billiards
- La carambole est une variante de billard qui se joue à deux ou plusieurs joueurs, sur une table sans poche, avec des queues et trois billes : La blanche, la pointée (ou le pointu, également blanche parfois jaune) et la carambole (rouge).
- French billiards is a billiard game played by two or more players, on a billiard table with no pockets, using cues and three balls: the white, the dotted (also white but sometimes yellow) and the “carambole” (the red).
- (cue sports, dated) cannon
- Ne traduisez plus l’anglais “a carom” par “une carambole” ; préférez le terme “un carambolage” plus fréquent aujourd’hui.
- The English term “a carom” should no longer be translated as “une carambole”; instead use “un carambolage”, which is more common today.
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Descendants edit
- → Turkish: karambol
Further reading edit
- “carambole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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carambole f