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"english": "womanizer",
"word": "bourreau des cœurs"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "workaholic",
"word": "bourreau de travail"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bourrer (“to hit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bourreaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"torturer"
],
"id": "en-bourreau-fr-noun-iJP~B7DP",
"links": [
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"torturer",
"torturer"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
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{
"_dis": "1 63 36",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "fr",
"name": "Occupations",
"orig": "fr:Occupations",
"parents": [
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"Work",
"Human",
"Human activity",
"All topics",
"Human behaviour",
"Fundamental"
],
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},
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"_dis": "20 49 31",
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"langcode": "fr",
"name": "Torture",
"orig": "fr:Torture",
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"Violence",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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{
"english": "Would you abandon him to the infamous blade / Which makes the wicked fall under the headman's hand?",
"ref": "1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 5, scene 3",
"text": "L’abandonnerez-vous à l’infâme couteau / Qui fait choir les méchants sous la main d’un bourreau ?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"executioner, hangman (the person)"
],
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"executioner"
],
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"hangman"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "exécuteur"
},
{
"word": "guillotineur"
},
{
"word": "taule"
},
{
"word": "tranche-tête"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
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"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"individual who lives extravagantly"
],
"id": "en-bourreau-fr-noun-OeZwXXFL",
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[
"individual",
"individual"
],
[
"extravagantly",
"extravagantly"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/bu.ʁo/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-o"
},
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"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:French/o",
"Rhymes:French/o/2 syllables",
"fr:Occupations",
"fr:Torture"
],
"derived": [
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"english": "womanizer",
"word": "bourreau des cœurs"
},
{
"english": "workaholic",
"word": "bourreau de travail"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From bourrer (“to hit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bourreaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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],
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
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],
"links": [
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]
],
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},
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"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"executioner, hangman (the person)"
],
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"executioner",
"executioner"
],
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"hangman",
"hangman"
]
],
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},
{
"word": "guillotineur"
},
{
"word": "taule"
},
{
"word": "tranche-tête"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
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"individual who lives extravagantly"
],
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"individual"
],
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"extravagantly",
"extravagantly"
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],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
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},
{
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},
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