rapace
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.pas/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -as
Adjective
rapace (plural rapaces)
- rapacious, predatory
- Le vautour est très rapace. ― The vulture is very rapacious.
- (figuratively) rapacious, greedy
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoé, translation by Alexandre Dumas
- Il s’en retourna repu et orgueilleux, pour raconter à ses rapaces compatriotes la richesse et la simplicité de nos nobles Saxons.
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- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoé, translation by Alexandre Dumas
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rapace” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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