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en pied

en pied adjective: full-length.

Adjective

en pied (not comparable)

  1. full-length
    • He showed them their stateroom - a spacious apartment, embellished with gas lamps, mirrors en pied, and sculptured furniture - and then, long after they had been intimately convinced that the steamer was in motion and launched upon the unknown stream that they were about to navigate, he bade them a...1878, Henry James, An International Episode

Origin of en pied

Borrowed from French en pied (“full-length”).

Questions about en pied

What does en pied mean?
En pied means full-length.
What part of speech is en pied?
En pied is an adjective.

Words near en pied in the dictionary

  1. en masse
  2. en pantoufles
  3. en papillote
  4. en passant
  5. en passants
  6. en pied
  7. en plein
  8. en plein air
  9. en pointe
  10. en prise
  11. en quad

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