beuverie
French
Etymology
From boire + -erie. A more regular form buverie was created in the sixteenth century but dropped from usage in the nineteenth.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bœ.vʁi/
Noun
beuverie f (plural beuveries)
- binge, excessive (usually social) drinking
- 1949 [1842], Henri Mongault, Les âmes mortes, translation of original by Nicolas Gogol:
- Je n’ai qu’un pauvre lopin de terre, mes paysans se croisent les bras, ne rêvent que de beuveries
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Further reading
- “beuverie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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