pitre
Appearance
See also: Pitrè
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably a dialectal variant of piètre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pitʁ/
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Noun
[edit]pitre m (plural pitres)
- clown, buffoon
- 2011 October 31, Frédéric Lewino, “Mouna aurait cent ans”, in Le Point[1]:
- La presse parle du "Pitre qui pense tout haut", du "Napoléon de la paix".
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012