frimousse
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French frume (“expression, mien”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fʁi.mus/
Audio (Switzerland): (file)
Noun
[edit]frimousse f (plural frimousses)
- (colloquial) sweet face, cute little face
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs, La Volte, →ISBN:
- […] et sous sa frimousse qui s’arrondit, à travers ses yeux émus de môme qu’il écarquille sans s’en rendre compte, quelque chose de scellé – d’enfoui profond, si profond…
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Internet) emoticon, smiley
- Synonym: (Quebec) binette
Further reading
[edit]- “frimousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.