béguine

See also: beguine

French

Etymology

From Old French béguine. See béguin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.ɡin/

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Noun

béguine f (plural béguines, masculine béguin)

1. (historical) Beguine (member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order)
2. (dated, derogatory) bigot

   Synonym: bigote

3. female equivalent of béguin

Further reading

• “béguine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• béguine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr