froideur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French froideur (literally “coldness”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
froideur (usually uncountable, plural froideurs)
- A cold or indifferent manner.
- (usually italicized) A chill in relations.
- 2001, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan[1], →ISBN, page 548:
- "There was a froideur between the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank for some time," recalled Collins.
- 2021 May 7, Barrett Swanson, “The Anxiety of Influencers”, in Harper's Magazine[2]:
- When I look over at Chase […] he stares back at Baron with such withering froideur that he resembles one of those Dust Bowl farmers in a Dorothea Lange portrait.
French edit
Etymology edit
From froid + -eur. Compare Catalan fredor, Spanish frior.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
froideur f (plural froideurs)
Descendants edit
- → English: froideur
Further reading edit
- “froideur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.