pucelage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French pucelage, from pucelle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pucelage (countable and uncountable, plural pucelages)
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pucelage m (plural pucelages)
- (colloquial) virginity
- innocence
- 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:
- Sa mère vend le pucelage du petit frère de Martaine à un autre homme qui n’encule que des garçons, et qui les veut à sept ans juste.
- Her mother sells Martaine's little brother's innocence to another man who only buggers boys, and who likes them at just seven years old.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pucelage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pucelage oblique singular, m (oblique plural pucelages, nominative singular pucelages, nominative plural pucelage)
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