béguine

See also: beguine

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /be.ɡin/
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Noun

béguine f (plural béguines, masculine béguin)

(historical) Beguine (member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order)
(dated, derogatory) bigot
Synonym: bigote
female equivalent of béguin

Further reading

“béguine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
béguine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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