ciboire
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cibole (Quebec, euphemistic)
- simonak (Quebec, euphemistic)
- simonaque (Quebec, euphemistic)
- (blend with câlisse) câliboire, gériboire, jériboire, (blend with tabarnak) taboire (minced oath)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ciborium. Doublet of ciborium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /si.bwaʁ/
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Noun
[edit]ciboire m (plural ciboires)
- (Christianity) the ciborium cup, pyx
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- On aspergea d'eau bénite les draps du lit; le prêtre retira du saint ciboire la blanche hostie; et ce fut en défaillant d'une joie céleste qu'elle avança les lèvres pour accepter le corps du Sauveur qui se présentait.
- The bed-clothes were sprinkled with holy water, the priest drew from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with a celestial joy that she put out her lips to accept the body of the Saviour presented to her.
Interjection
[edit]ciboire
- (Quebec) a mild profanity
- 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 53:
- Ciboire ! Il a joui en l'étranglant ! C'est un hostie de malade !
- Holy shit! He came while strangling him. He's a fuckin' nutcase!
Further reading
[edit]- “ciboire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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