spectre
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Noun edit
spectre (plural spectres)
- British standard spelling of specter.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
- To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner […]
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin spectrum.
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spectre m (plural spectres)
- ghost, specter
- Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître. ― In the night, he saw a specter appear.
- spectrum
- Le spectre de la lumière blanche est un spectre continu. ― The spectrum of white light is a continuous spectrum.
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Further reading edit
- “spectre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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spectre n pl