"vouvoie" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: vouvoies [present, singular, third-person], vouvoying [participle, present], vouvoied [participle, past], vouvoied [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} vouvoie (third-person singular simple present vouvoies, present participle vouvoying, simple past and past participle vouvoied)
  1. Alternative form of vouvoy Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: vouvoy
    Sense id: en-vouvoie-en-verb-Lm8rRdfr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1997 March 1, Éamonn McManus, “NO CARRIER”, in soc.motss (Usenet)",
          "text": "My hairdresser does not like this, for instance, and will often vouvoie even clients younger than him if he doesn't know them.[…]In the local gyms I've been to there has been a very \"copain copain\" ambience and tutoiement has been the rule, in the changing rooms as elsewhere. I noticed for instance that at my free trial session the personnel vouvoied me but once I had signed up I was tu.[…]Alex immediately eliminated one of the suspects because the murdered woman would have vouvoied her.",
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          "ref": "2014, Kelly Rogers, Extraordinary, Ordinary Women: Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris, University Press of America, page 56",
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