nuée
French
FWOTD – 3 July 2013
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɥe/
Noun
nuée f (plural nuées)
- (chiefly formal or literary) thick cloud
- cloud (of arrows, insects)
- horde, host, swarm (of people, birds, enemies etc.)
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.2.xiii:
- On n’entendait que les petits cris faibles d’une nuée d’oiseaux de passage qui traversaient le ciel à une hauteur immense.
- All that could be heard were the weak, distant cries of a flock of migratory birds crossing the sky at an immense height.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nuée.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “nuée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
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Synonyms
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