camarde
See also: Camarde
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.maʁd/
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Adjective
camarde
- feminine singular of camard
Noun
camarde f (plural camardes)
- female equivalent of camard
- (informal, with article, sometimes capitalized) Death (personification of death)
- 1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Mourir pour des idées”, in Fernande:
- Car, enfin, la Camarde est assez vigilante / Elle n'a pas besoin qu'on lui tienne la faux / Plus de danse macabre autour des échafauds !
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Alternative forms
- Camarde
Further reading
- “camarde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.