tollé
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French tolez, imperative form of toldre (“take away”), from Latin tollere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tollé m (plural tollés)
- (general) outcry; backlash
- 2003 August 22, Clairandrée Cauchy, “L'aéroport de Dorval devient l'aéroport PET”, in Le Devoir[1]:
- Le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé hier qu’il rendait hommage au controversé premier ministre en rebaptisant ce qu’il appelle la fenêtre sur le monde de la métropole québécoise. L’annonce a suscité un tollé chez les nationalistes québécois et les citoyens de Mirabel.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “tollé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]tollé
- second-person singular voseo imperative of toller
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