contenance
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See also: Contenance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French countenance; from the present participle of contenir, with the suffix -ance, cf. also Late Latin continentia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]contenance f (plural contenances)
- capacity (amount that can be held)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Cela dépendait autrefois d'une petite ferme vendue par M. Bovary père, car Lheureux savait tout, jusqu'à la contenance d'hectares, avec le nom des voisins.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- composure
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → German: Contenance
Further reading
[edit]- “contenance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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