sapeur
English
Etymology
From French sapeur.
Noun
sapeur (plural sapeurs)
- (Africa) A member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance.
- 2020 July 27, Kay, Trey, “Congolese dandies: Meet the stylish men and women of Brazzaville”, in The Guardian, London: The Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2020-10-01:
- Since the 1920s, the sapeurs of the Congo have been making sartorial statements on the streets of Brazzaville and Kinshasa.
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Anagrams
- pauser
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.pœʁ/
Etymology 1
From Middle French sappeur. By surface analysis, saper + -eur.
Noun
sapeur m (plural sapeurs)
- sapper
Derived terms
- fumer comme un sapeur
Etymology 2
From sape + -eur. In the context of La Sape, the word is also treated as an initialism of Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes ("Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People").
Noun
sapeur m (plural sapeurs, feminine sapeuse)
- (Africa) a member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance
Further reading
- “sapeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
sapeur m (plural sapeurs)
- (Jersey, military) sapper