veillée
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛ.je/, /ve.je/
Audio (CAN) (file)
Noun
veillée f (plural veillées)
- gathering (in the evening)
- vigil
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter III:
- L’hôtelier lui dit aussi qu’il n’y avait dans son château aucune chapelle où passer la veillée des armes, parce qu’on l’avait abattue pour en bâtir une neuve ...
- The innkeeper also told him that there was in his castle no chapel to spend the vigil of the armour at, because they had torn it down to build a new one...
Derived terms
Further reading
- “veillée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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