meute

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meute (plural meutes)

  1. A cage for hawks; a mew.
    • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
      Many were held by lay abbots , who , by degrees , expelled the monks ; the cloisters became the camps of their retainers , the stables of their coursers , the kennels of their hounds , the meutes of their hawks.

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From French meute.

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meute f (plural meuten or meutes)

  1. pack, rout, crowd

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French meute, from muete, from Latin *movita, feminine substantivization of Latin *movitus, 'vulgar' perfect passive participle for moveō (move).

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meute f (plural meutes)

  1. (hunting) pack (of hounds)
  2. mob (of people)
    C'est la meute des honnêtes gens qui fait la chasse à l'enfant (Jacques Prévert)

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  • Dutch: meute
  • German: Meute

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