froideur
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French froideur.
Noun[edit]
froideur (usually uncountable, plural froideurs)
- (usually italicized) A chill in relations
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2001, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan[1], ISBN 0802138292, page 548:
- "There was a froideur between the Bank of England and the Swiss central bank for some time," recalled Collins.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
froid + -eur. Compare Catalan fredor, Spanish frior.
Noun[edit]
froideur f (plural froideurs)
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Further reading[edit]
- “froideur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
