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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marcassin (plural marcassins)
- A young wild boar.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 136:
- A fat marcassin to adorn the board.
Translations
[edit]young wild boar
References
[edit]- “marcassin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from marque, because of their striped coat.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marcassin m (plural marcassins)
- young wild boar, marcassin
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Je n’y avais jamais fait le sanglier le groin dans l’herbe avec elle sous mon ventre, mon marcassin, mimant l’attaque des loups.
- Here, I had never pretended to be a wild boar with my snout in the grass, with her under my belly, my boarlet, miming a wolf attack.
Further reading
[edit]- “marcassin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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