coustume
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French coustume.
Noun
coustume f (plural coustumes)
- custom; tradition
- 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 59:
- Beaux seigneurs vous scavez bien que la coustume de ceans est telle que nous devons eslire cellui a nostre escient qui le mieulx a fait au tournoiement.
- Good sirs, you know very well that our custom is that we have to choose who, to the best of our knowledge, has performed the best in the tournament.
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Descendants
- French: coutume
Old French
Etymology
From a Vulgar Latin contraction of Latin consuetudo, consuetudinem, possibly a form *costumen or *cōnsuetūmen.
Noun
coustume f (oblique plural coustumes, nominative singular coustume, nominative plural coustumes)
- order; tradition
- custom; tradition
Descendants
- English: costume (borrowed), custom (borrowed)
- Middle French: coustume
- French: coutume
- Norman: couteume (Guernsey)