froideur

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Contents

1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
  - 1.2.1 Synonyms
2 French

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French froideur.

Noun[edit]

froideur (usually uncountable, plural froideurs)

(usually italicized) A chill in relations
- 2001, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan‎^[1], →ISBN, page 548:
  "There was a froideur between the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank for some time," recalled Collins.

Synonyms[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

froid +‎ -eur. Compare Catalan fredor, Spanish frior.

Noun[edit]

froideur f (plural froideurs)

coldness, cold

Synonyms[edit]

froidure

Related terms[edit]

froid

Further reading[edit]

“froideur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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