descente
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French descente, from descendre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
descente f (plural descentes)
- descent (act of going down)
- descent (downward slope)
- way down
- descending
- raid (e.g. police raid)
- (sports) downhill (an event in skiing or canoeing)
- comedown (from a drug), crash
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Further reading[edit]
- “descente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.