cornard

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.naʁ/

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Noun

cornard m (plural cornards)

1. cuckold (married man)
   • 1926, Marcel Aymé, Brûlebois, Éditions Gallimard, chap. IV, 1975 ed., p. 43

     Il y avait, face à la fenêtre, une haute armoire en chêne clair aux larges portes unies, un de ces vastes meubles où les belles meunières de jadis devaient cacher leur galant quand les sonnailles des chevaux annonçaient dans la nuit le retour du jovial cornard.

     There was, facing the window, a tall wardrobe in light oak with plain wide doors, one of those vast pieces of furniture in which beautiful millers' wives of days gone by had to hide their beaux when the jingle of horses' bells in the night announced the return of their jovial cuckolded husbands.

Synonyms

• See cocu

Related terms

• cornes

Further reading

• “cornard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.