"vouvoyer" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "vouvoyering",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "vouvoyered",
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      "form": "vouvoyered",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "vousvoyer"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 May 17, Elizabeth Thompson, “Bertrand found fake ‘Bouchard’ a bit haughty”, in The Gazette, page A 2",
          "text": "[Guy] Bertrand said he should also have twigged when “Bouchard” – whom he has addressed using the familiar “tu” for years – started off the conversation using the formal “vous.” “I found myself saying, ‘Hello, Lucien, how is it going?’ and he ‘vouvoyered’ me and he had a bit of a haughty air. So I told myself that even though we know each other well, perhaps it’s better if we use vous.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 February 19, Mary Blume, “Mastering the Unmasterable: A French Puzzle”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "An outraged Parisian gave up skiing when his instructor addressed him as tu, while a fashionable personal trainer insists upon it because he would not feel right about vouvoyer-ing deltoids and abs.[…]Questioned on his use of tu and vous, a Paris doctor said he doesn't know why he addresses his daughter-in-law as vous and his son-in-law as tu or why he tutoyers his golf pro but vouvoyers his golf partners.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 7, Joanna Briscoe, “Alone in Paris”, in The Independent, number 7872, page 46",
          "text": "I had followed up the few leads I had and was invited to a couple of dinner parties, but after years of over-busy social life in London, I had become an awkward mute, knowing I was failing to understand the codes, the tutoyer-ing versus the vouvoyer-ing.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 181",
          "text": "The lad is vouvoyering him, being well brought up: the state he’s in, he has hardly earned the formal mode.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 29, Norman Hunt, “Madame XXX”, in The Connexion",
          "text": "In my view, vouvoyering is not enough. Far better to go on to monsieur et madame, which applies another diaphanous layer of style.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of vousvoyer"
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  "word": "vouvoyer"
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      "form": "vouvoyers",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vouvoyered",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1996 May 17, Elizabeth Thompson, “Bertrand found fake ‘Bouchard’ a bit haughty”, in The Gazette, page A 2",
          "text": "[Guy] Bertrand said he should also have twigged when “Bouchard” – whom he has addressed using the familiar “tu” for years – started off the conversation using the formal “vous.” “I found myself saying, ‘Hello, Lucien, how is it going?’ and he ‘vouvoyered’ me and he had a bit of a haughty air. So I told myself that even though we know each other well, perhaps it’s better if we use vous.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 February 19, Mary Blume, “Mastering the Unmasterable: A French Puzzle”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "An outraged Parisian gave up skiing when his instructor addressed him as tu, while a fashionable personal trainer insists upon it because he would not feel right about vouvoyer-ing deltoids and abs.[…]Questioned on his use of tu and vous, a Paris doctor said he doesn't know why he addresses his daughter-in-law as vous and his son-in-law as tu or why he tutoyers his golf pro but vouvoyers his golf partners.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 7, Joanna Briscoe, “Alone in Paris”, in The Independent, number 7872, page 46",
          "text": "I had followed up the few leads I had and was invited to a couple of dinner parties, but after years of over-busy social life in London, I had become an awkward mute, knowing I was failing to understand the codes, the tutoyer-ing versus the vouvoyer-ing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 181",
          "text": "The lad is vouvoyering him, being well brought up: the state he’s in, he has hardly earned the formal mode.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 29, Norman Hunt, “Madame XXX”, in The Connexion",
          "text": "In my view, vouvoyering is not enough. Far better to go on to monsieur et madame, which applies another diaphanous layer of style.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of vousvoyer"
      ],
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