crisette
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French crisette.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crisette f (plural crisettes)
- (Belgium) a minor crisis, notably in politics
- De jongste crisette bracht de regering weer niet ten val.
- Once more, the latest minor crisis didn't cause the government's downfall.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crisette f (plural crisettes)
- (informal) a minor crisis, a mini-crisis
- Synonym: crisounette
- 1937, Revue médicale de Nancy, volume 65, page 404:
- Le médecin, en toute bonne foi, s’imagine que la crise a été insignifiante, qu’il s’est agi d’une crisette comme certains le mettent sur leur petit mot d’envoi, et que tout est bien calmé.
- The doctor, all in good faith, imagines that the crisis was insignificant, that it was basically a mini-crisis as some of them put it in a brief report, and that it's all cooled off.
- 1970, Louise Weiss, Mémoires d'une Européenne, volume 3, page 226:
- Voici qu’Hélène de Portes, l’amie en titre de Paul Reynaud, devenu ministre des Finances, à la place de Paul Marchandeau, à la suite d’une crisette de cabinet, me téléphona, péremptoire.
- Hélène de Portes, the current lover of Paul Reynaud, who replaced Paul Marchandeau as finance minister following a minor cabinet crisis, called me on the phone in a commanding tone.
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[edit]- → Dutch: crisette
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