emplette
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French emploite (with change of suffix to -ette), from Late Latin *implicta, noun form of neuter past participle of implicare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]emplette f (plural emplettes)
- (dated) purchase
- Synonym: course
- faire des emplettes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l'assassin:
- Vous ne figurez jamais dans les journaux, vous ne fréquentez aucun cercle littéraire ou non-littéraire, à vrai dire, vous ne quittez cet appartement que pour faire des emplettes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “emplette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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