récompense
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]récompense f (plural récompenses)
- reward, recompense
- 1864, Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from [1]:
- « Ingrate, lui dit-il, tu as retiré ta tête saine et sauve de mon gosier, et tu demandes une récompense ! »
- “You are an ungrateful one,” replied the Wolf, “to have taken your head in safety out of my mouth, and then to ask for a reward.”
- prize, award
Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: recompensă
Further reading
[edit]- “récompense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.