en pied

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French en pied (full-length).

Adjective

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en pied (not comparable)

  1. full-length
    • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
      He showed them their stateroom - a spacious apartment, embellished with gas lamps, mirrors en pied, and sculptured furniture - and then, long after they had been intimately convinced that the steamer was in motion and launched upon the unknown stream that they were about to navigate, he bade them a sociable farewell.

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Adjective

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en pied (invariable)

  1. full-length, en pied
    Coordinate term: en buste
    un portrait en pieda full-length portrait