vousvoie
English
Verb
vousvoie (third-person singular simple present vousvoies, present participle vousvoying, simple past and past participle vousvoied)
- Alternative form of vouvoy
- 1989, Jane Lapotaire, Grace and Flavour, Macmillan London Limited, →ISBN, page 303:
- ‘Steak, s’il te plaît,’ I said. I was unsure whether I should vousvoie him or not.
- 1992, Richard Price, Sally Price, Equatoria, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 285:
- LS tutoies men (Rich, AO), whom he treats as buddies, and vousvoies women (Sally, La Directrice), adopting with them the role of chivalrous patron;
- 2014, Daniel Lee, “Lautrec: The EIF’s Return to the Land Project”, in Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–1942 (Oxford Historical Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 139:
- Denise Gamzon recalled that [Gilbert] Bloch was ‘very French…with the style of an officer at times a bit aggravating’. This sentiment was echoed by Annette Porat in a 2010 interview, where she recalled that Bloch was the only person at Lautrec to ‘vousvoie’ the other youths.
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