marronnier
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
marronnier m (plural marronniers)
- chestnut tree
- horse-chestnut tree
- (newsmedia, figurative) old chestnut (A news item which, like chestnut fruits, tends to come back every year at the same time. Implies that the news is a fill-in, that might as well have been written in advance.)
Further reading
- “marronnier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.