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faux_pas

faux pas

See also: Fauxpas

English

Noun

faux pas (plural faux pas)

  1. An embarrassing or tactless blunder (especially used in social situations and contexts); a misstep.
    • 1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 2
      A saint after repentance will forgive himself for a sin; a man about town will never forgive himself for a faux pas.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fo pa/

Noun

faux pas m (plural faux pas)

  1. stumble, misstep, false step
  2. (figuratively) faux pas, blunder