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nécessaire

nécessaire is the alternative spelling of necessaire.

Meaning of necessaire

Noun

necessaire (plural necessaires)

  1. A small case for holding personal items, especially toiletries.
    • While this was being made they missed one boat, and, by the time it was ready, the sleuths were on their track – this unlucky medicine chest having played the same part that Marie Antoinette's nécessaire did in the escape to Varennes.1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 111

Forms of nécessaire

pluralnécessaires

Origin of nécessaire

Unadapted borrowing from French nécessaire.

Questions about nécessaire

What is nécessaire the alternative spelling of?
Nécessaire is the alternative spelling of necessaire.

Words near nécessaire in the dictionary

  1. næves
  2. nævi
  3. Nævian
  4. nævus
  5. né
  6. nécessaire
  7. nécessaires
  8. née
  9. Néel
  10. Néel temperature
  11. Néel temperatures

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