spectre

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spectre (plural spectres)

  1. British standard spelling of specter.
    • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], →OCLC:
      To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner []

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Learned borrowing from Latin spectrum.

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  • IPA(key): /spɛktʁ/
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spectre m (plural spectres)

  1. ghost, specter
    Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.In the night, he saw a specter appear.
  2. spectrum
    Le spectre de la lumière blanche est un spectre continu.The spectrum of white light is a continuous spectrum.

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spectre n pl

  1. plural of spectru