à pied
French
Pronunciation
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à pied (France, Paris): (file)
Adverb
- on foot
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXIX:
- « Eh ! seigneur licencié, s’écria-t-il alors, que Votre Grâce me laisse faire ; il n’est pas juste que je reste à cheval, tandis que Votre Révérence est à pied.
– Je ne le souffrirai en aucune manière, répondit le curé ...»- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- "Oh! Sir licentiate," exclaimed he, "that Your Grace would allow me; it is not just that I should remain on horseback, while Your Worship is on foot."
- "I will not suffer it in any manner," replied the curate...
Usage notes
Not to be confused with au pied.