marronnier

French

Etymology

marron +‎ -ier

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma.ʁɔ.nje/
Audio (file)

Noun

marronnier m (plural marronniers)

chestnut tree
horse-chestnut tree
(newsmedia, figuratively) old chestnut (A news item which, like chestnut fruits, tends to come back every year at the same time. Implies that the news is a fill-in, that might as well have been written in advance.)

Further reading

“marronnier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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