cahier de doléances
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French cahier de doléances.
Noun
[edit]cahier de doléances m (invariable)
- (historical) lists of grievances drawn up by each of the three Estates in France, between January and April 1789, the year in which the French Revolution began
- Synonyms: quaderni delle lamentele, quaderni di doglianza
- (figurative, by extension) series of complaints