avenant
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.v(ə).nɑ̃/
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Adjective
avenant (feminine avenante, masculine plural avenants, feminine plural avenantes)
- (of a person) affable, likable, appealing
- 1854, Gérard de Nerval, Les Filles du feu:
- L’hôtesse était aimable et sa fille fort avenante, – ayant de beaux cheveux châtains, une figure régulière et douce, et ce parler si charmant des pays de brouillard, qui donne aux plus jeunes filles des intonations de contralto, par moments !
- The hostess was amiable, and her daugher quite appealing, with her pretty chestnut hair, a sweet and even figure, and that ever-so-charming parlance of the misty country, which at times gives young girls a contralto intonation.
- (of a thing) comely, fitting
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 4, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Par les larges hublots du lab, sis au sixième étage, la vue dominait une mer orangée de tuiles en terre cuite qui rappelaient que cette ville avait été, avant d’être « civinisée », une plutôt avenante cité provençale.
- The view from the lab's big windows, located on the sixth floor, overlooked a sea of orange terracotta tiles, which were a reminder that before it was "civinized", this had been a rather charming Provençal town.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “avenant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
From avenir; literally "coming, arriving".
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