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feu de joie

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See also: feu-de-joie

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French feu de joie (literally fire of joy).

Noun

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feu de joie (plural feux de joie)

  1. (obsolete) A bonfire.
  2. A celebratory salute made by firing guns into the air sequentially along a line.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 60:
      while Platte was rolling over and over on the turf, like a shot rabbit, the watch and guard flew from his waistcoat—as an Infantry Major's sword hops out of the scabbard when they are firing a feu-de-joie

French

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Etymology

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Literally, “fire of joy”, “joy fire”. Compare Dutch vreugdevuur, German Freudenfeuer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feu de joie m (plural feux de joie)

  1. bonfire