eschec et mat

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شاه مات (šāh māt), itself borrowed from Persian.

Noun

eschec et mat m

(chess) checkmate

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (eschec, supplement)

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