débâcle
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débâcle (plural débâcles)
- Alternative form of debacle.
- 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:
- The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.
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Deverbal from débâcler
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débâcle f (plural débâcles)
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débâcle
- inflection of débâcler:
Further reading edit
- “débâcle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.