troupe

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English[edit]

A troupe of entertainers

Etymology[edit]

Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.

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Noun[edit]

troupe (plural troupes)

  1. A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
    • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian[1]:
      Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
  2. Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

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troupe (third-person singular simple present troupes, present participle trouping, simple past and past participle trouped)

  1. (intransitive) To tour with a troupe.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formation from troupeau.

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troupe f (plural troupes)

  1. troop

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  • English: troop; troupe
  • Middle Dutch: trop
  • German: Truppe
  • Polish: trupa
  • Romanian: trupă
  • Spanish: tropa
  • Swedish: trupp

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.

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troupe f (invariable)

  1. troupe, company (theatrical)

References[edit]

  1. ^ troupe in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French troupe.

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troupe f (plural troupes)

  1. troupe

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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