avoir le cafard
French
Etymology
From cafard (“melancholy”). This term originated from poetry writer Baudelaire in “Les Fleurs du mal” in 1857.[1] Le cafard came to mean an extreme depression or sense of pointlessness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.vwaʁ lə ka.faʁ/
Verb
Conjugation
- see avoir
References
- Charles Baudelaire (1855), “La Volupté”, in Les Fleurs du mal: “Parfois il prend, sachant mon grand amour de l’Art, / La forme de la plus séduisante des femmes, / Et, sous de spécieux prétextes de cafard, / Accoutume ma lèvre à des philtres infâmes.”
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