fredaine
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fredaine (plural fredaines)
- A prank; an escapade.
- c. 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Shrove Tuesday in Paris:
- […] and so they leave carnivalising to the jeunesse; and the jeunesse of to-day will probably hand over the same principles and practice to their sons, thinking their fredaines as harmless matters of course, and on the score of morality quite easy […]
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Old Occitan fradin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fredaine f (plural fredaines)
Further reading
[edit]- “fredaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.