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feu de joie

feu de joie noun: a bonfire.

Noun

feu de joie (plural feux de joie)

  1. (obsolete) A bonfire.
  2. A celebratory salute made by firing guns into the air sequentially along a line.
    • while Platte was rolling over and over on the turf, like a shot rabbit, the watch and guard flew from his waistcoat—as an Infantry Major's sword hops out of the scabbard when they are firing a feu-de-joie1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 60

feu de joie meaning in Tamil

feu de joie in Tamil

வெடி மருந்து

Forms of feu de joie

pluralfeux de joie
alternative formfeu-de-joie

Origin of feu de joie

Unadapted borrowing from French feu de joie (literally “fire of joy”).

Questions about feu de joie

What does feu de joie mean?
Feu de joie means a bonfire.
What is feu de joie in Tamil?
Feu de joie in Tamil is வெடி மருந்து. See Feu de joie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is feu de joie?
Feu de joie is a noun.
What is the plural of feu de joie?
The plural of feu de joie is feux de joie.

Words near feu de joie in the dictionary

  1. fetwahs
  2. fetwas
  3. Fetzer
  4. Fetzers
  5. feu
  6. feu de joie
  7. feu duties
  8. feu duty
  9. feu-de-joie
  10. feu-duties
  11. feu-duty

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