napoléon
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.pɔ.le.ɔ̃/
Noun
napoléon m (plural napoléons)
- (historical) napoleon (20-franc coin)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- — La voilà, fit-elle en lui plaçant dans la main quatorze napoléons.
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Further reading
- “napoléon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012