veillée

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French

Verb

veillée

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of veiller

Noun

veillée f (plural veillées)

  1. gathering (in the evening)
  2. vigil
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter III:
      L’hôtelier lui dit aussi qu’il n’y avait dans son château aucune chapelle où passer la veillée des armes, parce qu’on l’avait abattue pour en bâtir une neuve ...
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      The innkeeper also told him that there was in his castle no chapel to spend the vigil of the armour at, because they had torn it down to build a new one...

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