madré
See also: madre
French
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French madré, by surface analysis, madre (“veined wood”) + -é.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editmadré (feminine madrée, masculine plural madrés, feminine plural madrées)
- (figurative) crafty, sly
- Synonym: rusé
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Départ”, in Tristes Tropiques, Librairie Plon:
- La seconde heure, et parfois la troisième, étaient consacrées à des présentations de malades ; on assistait alors à d’extraordinaires numéros entre le practicien madré et des sujets entraînés par des années d’asile à tous les exercices de ce type […] .
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (rare, of wood) mottled, veined
Related terms
editNoun
editmadré m (plural madrés)
Further reading
edit- “madré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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