parpaillot

French

Alternative forms

• parpaillaud (obsolete)
• parpayot

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan parpalhòt (“butterfly”), probably an allusion to the infidelity of Protestants who "flutter from church to church".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.pa.jo/

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• Rhymes: -jo
• Hyphenation: par‧pa‧illot

Noun

parpaillot m (plural parpaillots, feminine parpaillote)

1. (derogatory) Protestant

   Synonyms: protestant, religionnaire

2. (derogatory) misbeliever

   Synonyms: impie, mécréant

Further reading

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “parpaillot”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “parpaillot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012