tangage
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tangage m (plural tangages)
- (nautical) pitching (and tossing)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Son cocher, qui était ivre, s'assoupit tout à coup; et l'on apercevait de loin, par-dessus la capote, entre les deux lanternes, la masse de son corps qui se balançait de droite et de gauche selon le tangage des soupentes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2006, École pratique des hautes études (France). Section des sciences économiques et sociales, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Cahiers d'études africaines, Volume 46, Issues 3-4; Volume 46, Issues 183-184[2], volume 46, numbers 3-4; 183-184 (in English), Mouton., page 586:
- Following the goal of surrealist automatic writing, the sheer richness of this dream imagery blurs the border between oneirography and fiction—the tawdry colonials, the sign of the alluring woman, the writing lesson, the papyrus turban, the disguised charlatan's reverie, the ecstasy of signification, writing both conscious and unconscious, poetic and hermeneutic, text and mirror, "langage tangage" (Leiris 19859)—composing a narrative philosophy of cross-cultural existence.
Descendants
- → Russian: танга́ж (tangáž)
Further reading
- “tangage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012