évaporé

See also: evapore, évapore, and evaporé

French

Participle

évaporé (feminine évaporée, masculine plural évaporés, feminine plural évaporées)

  1. past participle of évaporer

Noun

évaporé m (plural évaporés, feminine évaporée)

  1. (figurative) flibbertigibbet (light-headed person)
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Il courut à sa mère; elle était hors des gonds, elle balbutiait:
      — C'est une insolente! une évaporée! pire, peut-être!
      He ran to his mother; she was beside herself. She stammered—
      “She is an insolent, giddy-headed thing, or perhaps worse!”

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