See fauve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "When I was six years old, I once saw a magnificent picture, in a book on the virgin forest called True Stories. It was of a boa that was swallowing a large cat.",
"ref": "1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, Chapter I:",
"text": "Lorsque j’avais six ans j’ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la forêt vierge qui s’appelait Histoires vécues. Ça représentait un serpent boa qui avalait un fauve.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a big cat, such as a lion or lynx"
],
"links": [
[
"big cat",
"big cat"
],
[
"lion",
"lion"
],
[
"lynx",
"lynx"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) a big cat, such as a lion or lynx"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"beast, wild animal, especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory. Usually implies adding big bears like the Black, Brown and Polar ones. Sometimes extends up to the wolverine, wolf, etc. More rarely, big, aggressive and/or hard to meet cervid game might go under this umbrella term as well."
],
"links": [
[
"beast",
"beast"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"fierce",
"fierce"
],
[
"aggressive",
"aggressive"
],
[
"predatory",
"predatory"
],
[
"wolverine",
"wolverine"
],
[
"wolf",
"wolf"
],
[
"cervid",
"cervid"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) beast, wild animal, especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory. Usually implies adding big bears like the Black, Brown and Polar ones. Sometimes extends up to the wolverine, wolf, etc. More rarely, big, aggressive and/or hard to meet cervid game might go under this umbrella term as well."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a violent or aggressive man or woman"
],
"links": [
[
"violent",
"violent"
],
[
"aggressive",
"aggressive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) a violent or aggressive man or woman"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a brownish orange color, tawny"
],
"links": [
[
"tawny",
"tawny"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"a brownish orange color, tawny [from mid-19th c.]"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"French terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"examiner"
],
"links": [
[
"polytechnic",
"polytechnic"
],
[
"jargon",
"jargon"
],
[
"examiner",
"examiner"
]
],
"qualifier": "polytechnic jargon",
"raw_glosses": [
"(polytechnic jargon, obsolete) examiner"
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fov/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-fauve.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/Fr-fauve.ogg/Fr-fauve.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Fr-fauve.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ov"
},
{
"homophone": "fauves"
}
],
"word": "fauve"
}
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