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See also: Depardieux
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French, a corruption of de part Dieu, literally "on the part of God".
Interjection
[edit]depardieux
- In God's name; certainly.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 131-2:
- "Depardieux," quod this yeman, "deere broother,
Thou art a bailly, and I am another."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “depardieux”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.