fredaine

English

Noun

fredaine (plural fredaines)

1. A prank; an escapade.
   • c. 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Shrove Tuesday in Paris:

     […] and so they leave carnivalising to the jeunesse; and the jeunesse of to-day will probably hand over the same principles and practice to their sons, thinking their fredaines as harmless matters of course, and on the score of morality quite easy […]

French

Etymology

Probably from Old Occitan fradin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁə.dɛn/

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Noun

fredaine f (plural fredaines)

1. youthful prank, escapade (with a notion of indulgence)

Further reading

• “fredaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.