feu de joie
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See also: feu-de-joie
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French feu de joie (literally “fire of joy”).
Noun
[edit]feu de joie (plural feux de joie)
- (obsolete) A bonfire.
- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “fire of joy”, “joy fire”. Compare Dutch vreugdevuur, German Freudenfeuer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]feu de joie m (plural feux de joie)
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