mésaventure
See also: mesaventure
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.za.vɑ̃.tyʁ/
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Noun
mésaventure f (plural mésaventures)
- misadventure, misfortune, bad stroke of luck
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Quelle mésaventure! pensait-il, quel désappointement!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “mésaventure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012