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hypermarché

French edit

Etymology edit

From hyper- +‎ marché, mid-1960s.[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe/
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Noun edit

hypermarché m (plural hypermarchés)

  1. hypermarket
    • Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → English: hypermarket (calque)

References edit

  1. ^ “1963: Carrefour invente l'hypermarché "à la française"”, in Le Monde‎[1] (in French), 2013 June 27
  2. ^ Grimmeau, Jean-Pierre (2013 June 10) “A forgotten anniversary: the first European hypermarkets open in Brussels in 1961”, in Brussels Studies (in French), number 67, →DOI, →ISSN

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