truand

English

Noun

truand (plural truands)

1. Obsolete form of truant.

Adjective

truand (comparative more truand, superlative most truand)

1. Obsolete form of truant.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “truand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Durant, durant, tundra

French

Etymology

From Transalpine Gaulish *truganto. Cognate to English truant, Irish trogán, Welsh tru.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁy.ɑ̃/

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Noun

truand m (plural truands, feminine truande)

1. (historical) (professional) beggar (in the Middle Ages)
2. crook; gangster
3. (colloquial) beggar

Derived terms

• truander

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• durant